Relais.io: Start and stop Amazon instances on a schedule

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Actually I was looking for a service like this a while ago for some machines that were used part-time (certain days and hours). But I could not really find something that I liked enough.

Then I realized the users could do it themselves as well. So now I use simple batchfiles that basically use the aws commandline: aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids XXXXXXX aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids XXXXXXX (to check current status) aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids XXXXXXX

The user can start, check and stop themselves (personal tokens in environ vars). I use a launchd process to automatically check every end of the afternoon if all machines are powered down. Surprisingly this works very well. I just checked the logs and I must say we have very precise users :-)

'Get started for free' so what does that mean for future pricing ? I would like to know what I get into.

Good question. We're looking into making this a commercial application if there is interest on it. I can imagine that we'll add pricing models when scheduling over an amount of instances. Lowest tier will be free.

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