Starting and Stopping Ec2 instances Automatically during Night for Non-prod Environment for Saving on the AWS Billing
The following script can be used to start and stop the Ec2 instances during the non-productive ours for the lower environment such as Development, Sit, stage etc. Depending on the number of instances that are stopped you can save on your AWS Billing. You can align the script to run during the defined ours using Cron job. The advantage of the script is that everytime you need to add an server to automatically start and stop you just need to enter in the Tag with specified values in our case its ADMIN_EC2_STARTSTOP which can have the values of stop or start and it would automatically add the instance to this setup. You don't have to change the script everytime a new server is being created. The script uses an additional tag of Environment to identify the Environment to start and stopped as it can be possible that you want to stop the Stage and Dev environment at different times and different days depending upon your requirement. So you dont have to change the script same script ...