Cancel a Spot Request vs Terminate Spot Instance I just started getting familiar with EC2's Spot Requests and Spot Instances (1 day into it!).  I understand that I can save some money doing a Spot Request to create a Spot Instance as opposed to creating an on-demand Instance.  

What I don't understand is the correct way to "shut things down".  If I want to make sure that I'm no longer charged, do I need to to cancel the Spot Request and terminate the Spot Instance?  

I noticed that I could solely terminate the Spot Instance: what would this mean in terms of my Spot Request which exists without my instance?
You can definitely cancel your spot instance requests via the Management Console and via the CLI. There appears to be a command to terminate the instance also.

See the following AWS docs as a reference:

AWS Docs - Cancel Spot Instance

As for terminating just the spot instance, I'm not sure but I think the, still active, spot request would spin up the instance once the spot price matches the request again.

** Edit **

Worth noting that if you terminate the spot instance within an instance hour then you pay for the full hour, even if you only used a few minutes of it.