Components of the Instance Scheduler

- [Instructor] AWS Instance Scheduler … uses the following components to automate … the starting and stopping of EC2 and RDS instances. … Scheduler configuration table. … The AWS Instance Scheduler creates an Amazon DynamoDB table … that contains global configuration settings. … To modify these global configuration settings … after the solution is deployed, … it is recommended to update the AWS CloudFormation stack. … Schedules. … Schedules are used to specify … when EC2 and RDS instances should run. … Each schedule must have a unique name … which is used as the tag value to identify the schedule … that needs to be applied on the tagged resource. … A schedule consists of periods. … Each schedule must contain one period … that defines the time the instance should run. … A schedule can contain more than one period. … Time zone. … Each schedule may also contain a time zone. … If you do not specify a time zone, … the schedule uses the default time zone … specified while launching the solution. …