From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)
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Deploy an Instance Scheduler - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)
Deploy an Instance Scheduler
- [Narrator] The AWS Instance Scheduler solution is deployed using an AWS CloudFormation template. The template is available on the AWS online documentation. We'll first log in to the AWS Management Console and navigate to the CloudFormation service which can be found under the Management & Governance section. Click on the button that says Create new Stack. We'll use the second option to upload a template to Amazon S3 and click on the Choose File button. I'll point my browser to the CloudFormation template I downloaded earlier, and clock on Open. I'll then click on Next. CloudFormation validates the template, and takes you to the Specify Details page. Let's give the stack a name. I'm going to call this as EC2-Start-Stop. Next, under the Instance Scheduler tag name, specify the tag key that you'll be applying to instances that you want to automatically start and stop. It's using this tag that AWS identifies which EC2 instances need to start and stop. I'm going to leave it at the…
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