If I start my p2.large instance and stop it and repeat this two times within 10 minutes, how will I be charged? Will be it 2X 0.9 cents or 0.9 cents only? I read through the costing part on AWS but still not clear about this part. Can someone explain me on this?
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According to the AWS docs “Each time you transition an instance from stopped to started, we charge a full instance hour, even if transitions happen multiple times within a single hour.” I wasn’t aware of this until you asked the question - thanks for thoughtful question 
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@jeremy Even I wasn’t aware of this, but after seeing my billing information , I had a doubt regarding this. Thanks for your immediate reply. I was stopping instance unknowingly thinking that it will save my cost but it didnt happen 
Ah I was definitely doing the same. Good to know. Thanks!