Scenario: To reduce the cost of an idle development environment, you want to automatically shut down all EC2 instances at 6 PM and restart them at 8 AM. Solution ?

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Correct Answer: AWS Instance Scheduler

AWS Instance Scheduler is a managed solution that uses CloudWatch and Lambda to automate the starting and stopping of EC2 and RDS instances based on custom schedules....

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Scenario: To reduce the cost of an idle development environment, you want to automatically shut down all EC2 instances at 6 PM and restart them at 8 AM. Solution ?

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AWS Instance Scheduler

Why This Answer Is Correct

AWS Instance Scheduler is a managed solution that uses CloudWatch and Lambda to automate the starting and stopping of EC2 and RDS instances based on custom schedules.

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