> From a billing perspective, AWS does not charge for the EC2 instance itself when stopped, as there's no physical hardware being reserved; a stopped instance is just the configuration that will be used when the instance is started next. Note that you do pay for the root EBS volume though, as it's still consuming storage.

Shutdown standbys absolutely the way to do it.

Does AWS offer anything for this, because it's very tedious to set this up.