<p>I wonder if that would be possible to temporary stop the worker VM instances so they are not running at night time when I am not working on a cluster development. So far the only way I am aware of to "stop" the instances from running is to delete the cluster itself which I don't want to do. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.</p>

<h3>P.S. Edited later</h3>

<p>The cluster was created following steps outlined in <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html" rel="noreferrer">this</a> guide.</p>

alphanumeric
<p>I'm just learning myself but this might help. If you have <a href="https://eksctl.io/" rel="noreferrer">eksctl</a> installed, you can use it from the command line to scale your cluster. I scale mine down to the min size when I'm not using it:</p>
<pre><code>eksctl get cluster
eksctl get nodegroup --cluster CLUSTERNAME
eksctl scale nodegroup --cluster CLUSTERNAME --name NODEGROUPNAME --nodes NEWSIZE
</code></pre>
<p>To completely scale down the nodes to zero use this (max=0 threw errors):</p>
<p><code>eksctl scale nodegroup --cluster CLUSTERNAME --name NODEGROUPNAME --nodes 0 --nodes-max 1 --nodes-min 0</code></p>
