I want to use an ec2 instance just to do work on some personal programming and text processing projects in the cloud (from an ssh terminal) rather than on a desktop. I don't always need access to the instance, so I want to stop the instance whenever I don't need to work. However, when I restart the instance, the public dns has changed and I have to recopy the dns to my ssh command to gain access to the instance.
Is there a free way to make the public dns for such an ec2 instance fixed?