Terminate your instance - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Terminate your instance

You can delete your instance when you no longer need it. This is referred to as terminating your instance. As soon as the state of an instance changes to shutting-down or terminated, you stop incurring charges for that instance.

You can't connect to or start an instance after you've terminated it. However, you can launch additional instances using the same AMI. If you'd rather stop and start your instance, or hibernate it, see Stop and start your instance or Hibernate your Amazon EC2 instance. For more information, see Differences between reboot, stop, hibernate, and terminate.

For more information about what happens when you terminate an instance, see What happens when you terminate an instance.