by Andy Masters
11. November 2010 07:37
I just recently left one of my EC2 compute instances running for a week without meaning to - this gave me an extra $20 bill. Not the biggest in the world, but still annoying if you don't need to pay for it.
For my automated build server, I only need EC2 instances a couple of hours at a time never more than a day. So as a precaution:
- add a scheduled task running daily to automatically shut it down at 3am. (The command 'shutdown /s' can be run to achieve this on a Windows Server 2008 box)
This way, if I forget to shut down an instance it won't run for more than 24 hours before it shuts itself down :)
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