I am running a side-project on EC2 with an Ubuntu image because I need to do some computing intensive things there.
Now I don't need to do them each and every day right now (mostly because I do most development on weekends) and I would like to find a way how to prevent to pay EC2 24/7.
I understand that shutting down an instance requires that everything you did on that image is gone so my question is: Is there any way that I could create an image before I shut down an instance (to prevent costs) and then load that image, start a new instance and continue where I left off?