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Use shutdown commands deliberately: pause/hibernate preserve state for resume, while kill destroys the machine and releases resources.

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Pause Or Hibernate

pause and hibernate are aliases in the CLI:
The API snapshots the running machine and stops the active VM. Resume later from the returned snapshot ID:
For reusable baselines that can spawn many independent children, create an explicit snapshot:

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Set Idle Timeout Behavior

Configure what should happen when a machine idles:
You can also choose timeout behavior at create time:
Use auto-resume when SDK calls or public traffic should wake the hibernated machine automatically.

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Destroy A Machine

Destroy a machine when work is complete:
kill is the cleanup command used by the CLI and SDK context-manager flows. It is appropriate for disposable workspaces, one-off tests, and failed runs that do not need to be resumed.

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Clean Up Processes First

If you only need to stop a long-running command inside a still-useful machine, kill the process instead: