Pause Credit

Earn credit for temporarily unused instances

To earn credit for unused instances in your reservation (at the “Pause Credit” rate included in your reservation) all you need to do is pause the instances you’re not using. Note that instances only earn credit if they’re paused for at least one hour.

To pause instances within a reservation, navigate to the “Instances” page in the console and expand the reservation to reveal the instances it contains. Each instance can be paused/unpaused via the “manage” button. Note that restarting a paused instance might incur up to a seven minutes delay if it requires pre-empting another user in the spot market. If no pre-emption is required, the instance will initiate its restart immediately.