Child of #714, feeds #707. Script the rental so gate G2b runs the hour credentials arrive: scripts/smoke-test-aws.sh in hydrahyperscaler launches a g5.xlarge with the Windows Server 2022 AMI in eu-central-1 (security group RDP from operator IP only, instance profile none, tags hydra:program=695), prints the RDP endpoint and password retrieval command, and has stop/terminate/status subcommands with an explicit cost readout per hour.
Install steps on the box stay manual per the smoke-test-grid runbook (GRID driver, MttVDD, Sunshine). The script only manages the VM lifecycle. Shellcheck clean, dry-run by default, --apply to spend.