Show HN: VMPower – Shutdown/Startup/Backup/Resize VMs with a Calendar
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We wanted to keep the following in mind:
1) Scheduling VM actions should be easy like dropping events a calendar
2) It should be pluggable to any cloud. We work with AWS, GCE and Azure
3) Plugging in your cloud subscription should only take 2 minutes
Would love to hear what you think!
Azure does have auto-off today but it still doesn't make it easy to change that time per-day. It also doesn't have auto-start. You can also group VMs between resource groups and subscriptions since we flatten all the VMs across cloud providers, regions & resource groups.
and what are the advantages over just trying to just script a simple scheduler myself?
Typically you can save a third of those costs. We also can save a bunch of time from maintaining scripts, notifications, managing backups and sharing subsets of VMs with groups of users.
Typically these people are turning these VMs off during non-working hours so they're saving about half the cost of those VMs.
Although we're trying to stress that we save lots of time vs writing automation scripts.