gce instance start and stop existing instances (not create and destroy)

[Tongqing Qiu]

GCE now provides the function to stop and start the instances. Does ansible gce module provides that function?

I am not sure the meaning of  "active, present, absent, delete"  in the following document. 

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/gce_module.html

[Richard Corfield]

I have been trying to determine this myself and I have not successfully started a terminated instance with the Ansible gce module.

The titles of the Ansible module pages do seem to imply that the EC2 has a higher level of functionality than the GCE module:

ec2 - create, terminate, start or stop an instance in ec2

gce - create or terminate GCE instances

Richard