How to terminate AWS managed blockchain instance

Question

I followed these instructions below to get an AWS Ethereum instance running, however since I am just learning blockchain, I would like to create an image and start/stop as needed. However when I go to EC2 and stop my instance, it restarts. I saw other posts about this being caused by elastic beanstalk but when I go to elastic beanstalk, I don't see anything there. What else could be causing it to restart? Thanks!

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/blockchain-templates/latest/developerguide/blockchain-templates-getting-started.html

Answer 1

If you check the source code of one of its nested stacks ethereum-autoscalegroup.template.yaml , you can see that it actually creates instances in an autoscaling group (ASG).

Instances in ASG can't be stopped . However, you can terminate them, by setting desired capacity and minimum capacity to 0 of your ASG. Then if you want to create new instances when you need them, you can change desired capacity back to 1.