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Perhaps there's some value in this offering, but it's not hard to configure automatic scheduled startup/shutdown of EC2 instances just using what EC2 offers. Yo

Perhaps there's some value in this offering, but it's not hard to configure automatic scheduled startup/shutdown of EC2 instances just using what EC2 offers. You can leverage AWS tagging to single out which instances are to be started up each morning. Shutdown is easy, as any operating-system can be configured to auto-shutdown in the evening. This isn't as straightforward as it might be - it takes a blog-post to explain it: https://schen1628.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/auto-start-and-stop-your-ec2-instances/ https://schen1628.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/auto-start-and-st... , https://www.thinkforwardmedia.com/automating-ec2-instances-aws-lambda/ https://www.thinkforwardmedia.com/automating-ec2-instances-a... My own notes and a relevant AWS Lambda script, in Python: https://pinboard.in/u:MaxBarraclough/b:f0b059256f32 https://pinboard.in/u:MaxBarraclough/b:f0b059256f32 , https://gist.github.com/MaxBarraclough/211e569cb57b46c0ddb481f6adcefdd1 https://gist.github.com/MaxBarraclough/211e569cb57b46c0ddb48...

radedespodovski 7y ago
Probably if you have a couple of accounts and infrastructure units then probably you could set up similar configuration which will do the job. We at Microtica also started with that approach but as we started to expand with AWS accounts and multiple infrastructure units it become hard to manage all of it. Imagine if you have to use different tags as selectors with different schedule times for each. You would have to control each of them through CloudFormation or even manually log into EC2 instance to update the script. In addition, the solution provides few more benefits: 1. Auto-tagging 2. Native integration with infrastructure provisioned with Microtica 3. Cost and Saving dashboard 4. You don't need to manage your own infrastructure which will handle start/stop operations for EC2 and RDS 5. Schedule notifications
- scarface74 7y ago
  Why would I trust any company that is reckless enough to recommend giving their service full access to my account - with any access to my account?

radedespodovski 7y ago

Probably if you have a couple of accounts and infrastructure units then probably you could set up similar configuration which will do the job. We at Microtica also started with that approach but as we started to expand with AWS accounts and multiple infrastructure units it become hard to manage all of it. Imagine if you have to use different tags as selectors with different schedule times for each. You would have to control each of them through CloudFormation or even manually log into EC2 instance to update the script. In addition, the solution provides few more benefits: 1. Auto-tagging 2. Native integration with infrastructure provisioned with Microtica 3. Cost and Saving dashboard 4. You don't need to manage your own infrastructure which will handle start/stop operations for EC2 and RDS 5. Schedule notifications

scarface74 7y ago
Why would I trust any company that is reckless enough to recommend giving their service full access to my account - with any access to my account?