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  Introduction If you have an operation that you know that will only be operating for a set period of time within a week. If you could schedule the Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) to start and stop automatically, this could result in tremendous cost savings for you. I will be writing this guide using Tencent Cloud's Python API. The other languages should more or less be the same. What will you need? 1. Your target CVM ID. You can get it by clicking on the small copy icon beside the ID column of your CVM listings as shown in the picture below.   2. Your Tencent SecretId and SecretKey. You can create it through your manage API key page  or the steps shown in the picture below.  Step by step Creating the start instance serverless cloud function Creating the serverless cloud function 1. Go to the Function Service of your Serverless Cloud Function.   2. Click create 3. Choose your template. I generally create mine from scratch.  4. Fill in the basic confi...

Introduction You are excited to use Tencent Serverless Cloud Function to do your automation. You are following the Tencent API Explorer  and you are ready to rock yet when you test your Python code; you encountered  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tencentcloud' . This is a guide on how to solve this error and explanations of why you need to do those steps.  How to solve this error According to Tencent Cloud's Serverless Cloud Function's  Dependency Installation guide , there are two ways to solve this problem.  Package the dependency libraries and code together for upload - I haven't tried this so if you did and it works, please feel free to write a post and comment here. Use dependency management tools. Use dependency management tools to solve this error I'm going to use the same steps as shown in the guide. I will add pictures and edit the steps so that it will be easier for you.  Log in to the SCF console and select Function Service on the left s...