McCowan.io https://mccowan.io/blog Posts by Eric and Emily en-au ericrmc@gmail.com (Eric and Emily McCowan) ericrmc@gmail.com (Eric and Emily McCowan) Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://mccowan.io/blog/reduce-costs-scheduled-ec2-shutdowns Reduce Costs with Scheduled EC2 Instance Shutdowns on AWS https://mccowan.io/blog/reduce-costs-scheduled-ec2-shutdowns It is often still necessary to run certain applications on an EC2 instance, particularly if it is not easily containerised, and you do not want to pay extra for a managed service. In a non-production environment, you will be able to reduce costs by shutting down these instances when they are not needed by your developers or users. Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT ericrmc@gmail.com (Eric and Emily McCowan) awsec2lambdacloudformationcost reductionpythonboto3