Instance Scheduler tags

- [Narrator] The AWS Instant Scheduler … uses a Lambda function to start and stop … EC2 and RDS instances. … And the Lambda function references a Dynamo DB table … to check when the instance should run or stop. … The CloudFormation template we launched earlier … created a Dynamo DB table. … They Dynamo DB table has a schedule called … "Seattle Office Hours." … This schedule is associated with a period … called "Office Hours." … Scrolling up, we can see the period called "Office Hours," … which runs from Monday to Friday, … with a start time of 9:00 a.m., … and end time of 5:00 p.m. … It is also possible to create a new schedule … and a new period, or modify the existing ones. … For now, we'll leave it at the default. … If a tagged EC2 instance has a state of running … outside of these hours, … the Lambda function will stop the instance. … Let's tag the required EC2 or RDS instances. … Remember, the tag key must match what you specify … while creating the tag formation template. … And the tag value must match the name of the schedule …