ECS Instance Lifecycle Operations

Manage the full lifecycle of Alibaba Cloud ECS instances: create, start, stop, restart, release, and query.

Pre-check: Alibaba Cloud CLI must be installed and at least version 3.3.3.

aliyun version   # must be >= 3.3.3; if not installed:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 120 https://aliyuncli.alicdn.com/setup.sh)"