What is the AWS Instance Scheduler?

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: 

• Compute Fundamentals for AWS 
• Database Fundamentals for AWS ​​
• An Overview of Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudFormation: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code