Reducing AWS costs by turning off development environments at night— the easy way (without Lambda)

Why keep your non-production environments up when nobody is up? An environment in AWS usually is a group of these resources: Load balancers EC2 instances (hopefully part of an Autoscaling Group) RDS instances EBS volumes S3 buckets Caches, ElasticSearch, etc. In this tutorial, we will show how to turn off the most costly members of […]