**To stop an Amazon EC2 instance** This example stops the specified Amazon EBS-backed instance. Command:: aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0 Output:: { "StoppingInstances": [ { "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "CurrentState": { "Code": 64, "Name": "stopping" }, "PreviousState": { "Code": 16, "Name": "running" } } ] } For more information, see `Stop and Start Your Instance`_ in the *Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide*. .. _`Stop and Start Your Instance`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Stop_Start.html