A serverless EC2 scheduler using Lambda and Cloudwatch Events

In an attempt to further reduce costs of our EC2 instances, we determined some instances that are running 24/7 unnecessarily. An automated process to schedule  stop and start instances would greatly help cutting costs. Of course, the solution itself should not add an extra instance to our infrastructure. The solution has to be an example of serverless computing. Automagically stop running EC2 instances 24/7  unnecessarily We created a lambda function that scans all instances for a specific tag. The tag we use is named ‘Schedule’ and contains the desired ‘runtime’ for the specific instance. Instances without a Schedule tag will not be affected. We support the following content format in… Read More

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