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AWS Instance Scheduler - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization
AWS Instance Scheduler
- [Instructor] The highly dynamic nature of cloud environments makes it a desirable choice for computer infrastructure, however, it also leads to increased costs when you do not stop or terminate the instances when not needed. Once simple method to reduce costs is to stop the resources that are not in use and start them again when capacity is needed. AWS Instance Scheduler automates the starting and stopping of Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Relational Database Service instances, also known as RDS instances. Consider a company that uses compute capacity on EC2 on weekdays from Monday to Friday. AWS Instance Scheduler can be configured to automatically stop the instances on weekends and then restart them when the weekdays begin. AWS Instance Scheduler uses an AWS CloudFormation template to set up an Amazon CloudWatch at a user defined interval. The CloudWatch event invokes the AWS Lambda function to start and stop instances. The CloudWatch interval is a user configurable parameter…
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