# Start and stop pipelines manually
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You can use the AWS CodePipeline console or the AWS CLI to manually start and stop pipelines. There are automated methods for starting pipelines with event-based change detection as detailed in, or trigger configuration as detailed in .

**Topics**
+ [Start a pipeline in CodePipeline](pipelines-about-starting.md)
+ [Stop a pipeline execution in CodePipeline](pipelines-stop.md)