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I would like to ask, what automatic tools are there to start Amazon EC2 instance at 08:00AM and stop it on 16:00 (And where to run it from?)
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asked Jul 13 '10 15:07
During initial configuration of the Instance Scheduler, you define a tag key you will use to identify applicable Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. When you create a schedule, the name you specify is used as the tag value that identifies the schedule you want to apply to the tagged resource.
Schedules actually define when the EC2 and RDS instances should be running. Each schedule has a unique name and its configuration is stored in the DynamoDB. The entire setup revolves around tagging, which is basically a label you give to an instance to be able to categorize it and later quickly identify it.
The company I work for had customers regularly asking about this so we've written a freeware EC2 scheduling app available here:
http://blog.simple-help.com/2012/03/free-ec2-scheduler/
It works on Windows and Mac, lets you create multiple daily/weekly/monthly schedules and lets you use matching filters to include large numbers of instances easily or includes ones that you add in the future.
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I run my instances through a service called Scalarium - it has this time-based autoscaling. :)
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