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AWS Instance Scheduler is an official AWS Solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-sc...

It allows you to create automatic start and stop schedules for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. It uses a combination of CloudWatch/Lambda/DynamoDB to check against tagged instances.

Are you seriously alleging that NOT implementing a "stop resources when I sleep/am not around" feature amounts to price gouging?

If you don't like their prices, why don't you just switch to another provider? Plenty of good clouds. And even more dedicated / VPS servers, if you want truly crazy savings.

That's not what price gouging is.

They earn more money by not doing this.

The downside of shutting down the resources is that there may be none available anymore in that sizing or pricing when you want to start them up again. I suppose they also don’t want to risk being liable for that.