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EC2 Scheduling Best Practices

Save money and optimize costs with EC2 scheduling.

The "pay for what you consume" model has been favored by AWS users for as long as one can remember. Even with EC2 instances, there are certain servers that need to be kept running 24/7, usually in the production environment; but other servers in the staging and dev environments are only used at certain calculable intervals. So running all your instances at all times prohibits you from leveraging the best part of AWS. This is where basic instance scheduling comes in, where you automate the start and stop of such non-essential instances according to a schedule.

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EC2 instance scheduling in itself has become a best practice for optimizing instance usage and costs; but we’ve realized that the process of scheduling can also intrinsically be optimized, with certain best practices to define it. The savings that you generate just through basic scheduling during regular business hours can run up to almost 70%, imagine what happens if you go a step further. Here are some best practices to follow when it comes to scheduling your instances.

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AWS Resources That Should Be Backed Up

As many organizations have discovered first-hand, the consequences of data loss can be downright devastating, often resulting in prolonged downtime, significant damage to credibility, and major financial losses, both direct and indirect. While Amazon AWS has been heralded as a safer, more resilient alternative to on-premise computing, organizations must still think about how they can protect their AWS resources against loss by implementing a sound backup strategy.

Selecting AWS Resources for Backup

According to Amazon, AWS resources are all entities that an organization can work with, including EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and CloudFormation stacks. All AWS resources utilize a pay-as-you-go approach for pricing that’s similar to how utility companies charge for natural gas, water, and electricity.

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Top 3 Areas to Automate in AWS to Avoid Overpaying Cloud Bills

AWS is one of the most used cloud services across the world. Gartner Magic Quadrant ranks AWS as the largest IaaS providers. AWS services are used by enterprises from every possible domain. Around 1,000,000 companies worldwide are using AWS as their IaaS provider.

From Netflix to Unilever to Met Office, everyone has moved to cloud infrastructure on AWS. Since you are reading this blog, chances are you are using AWS, too, and perhaps overpaying!