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Our AWS account budget started small but over the years has grown into something quite substantial. In the beginning it was just our mail server, our public website, and our Atlassian Suite server.\u00a0 Easy peasy. But since then, we’ve added a sand box Atlassian server for testing, the occasional Dev Atlassian server for development projects, our CRM server, our MarCom Contact Mgmt server, a database instance, a DevOps instance, an Ansible automation server and all the load balancers, S3 buckets, and monitoring tools to manage it all.\u00a0 And this wasn’t cheap. It just sort of creeped up on us.<\/p>\n
If only we could remember to turn off the instances we didn’t always need and just create instances on demand from previously designed AMI’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Today’s solution is just about the turning stuff off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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AWS Lambda to the Rescue!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Aside from our website and application servers we seldom have need for many of our other EC2 instances outside business hours. Especially our testing environments like those use for User Acceptance Testing, Sandboxing, or Dev.\u00a0 If we could automate turning off & on these instances from 7pm to 7am during the work week PLUS the entire weekend we could save a ton. Given we only need them running Monday thru Friday 7a to 7p, 12 hours each day, we could save approximately 108 hours of the 168 hour calendar week. 168 – 60 = 108.\u00a0 That’s a 64% savings!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWhy this solution?<\/h4>\n