title: Amazon EC2 Instance Remotely Start
body: <p>Can someone elaborate more on the details of how to remotely start a EC2 instance remotely? </p>
  
  <p>I have a Linux box set up locally, and would like to set up a cronjob on it to start an instance in Amazon EC2. How do I do that?</p>
  
  <p>I've never worked with API's, if there are ways to use API's, can someone please explain how to do so...</p>