Using Instance Scheduler to Optimize Resource Cost

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 2 minutes and 31 seconds

Students: 233

Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, we explain how to use the AWS Instance Scheduler to control EC2 and RDS instance spend. You’ll learn how to automate the stopping and starting of your instances with this tool so that you can reduce costs across your AWS environment.

Learning Objectives

What the tool is and the benefit it provides
How to implement the tool
How to create custom schedules to stop and start your instances

Intended Audience

Those who are using EC2 or RDS instances and looking to better control costs for those instances when they are not in use
If you’re a developer, cloud engineer, or cloud financial operations professional looking to optimize instance spend

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have an understanding of Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch. For more information on these services, please see our existing content: