Saving Money on AWS: Automating Stopping & Starting of EC2 Instances via CRON

Posted on September 8, 2016 by

This video is using a third-party tool called Botmetric to create CRON jobs to stop and start EC2 instances on a regular schedule.

Shutting down EC2 instances when you leave work Monday – Friday, and starting them up again right before you return to work the next day, and shutting them off on Friday when you leave the office and starting them up again before arriving for work on Monday can save you more than 60% of your monthly EC2 costs!

You can do with with regular CRON jobs via a terminal, but this product makes it easy.

Either way, you should be doing this to #savemoneyonAWS!

This entry was posted in Amazon Web Services, Botmetric, CRON, DevOps/CloudOPs, EC2 and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

w
Cancel

Connecting to %s