<story><title>Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you&apos;re sleeping</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aramalipoor</author><text>Just published a tiny CLI utility to save some bucks on AWS development environment while I&amp;#x27;m not really working.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aramalipoor&amp;#x2F;aws-cost-saver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aramalipoor&amp;#x2F;aws-cost-saver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to stop&amp;#x2F;shutdown any resources (such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, ECS tasks, etc.) when you&amp;#x27;re done for the day and restore them back up next time you continue.&lt;p&gt;Currently it&amp;#x27;s in a very early stage, a hobby side-project :)&lt;p&gt;Ideally I&amp;#x27;m thinking to provide a CloudFormation template or terraform config for example, to provision a scheduled Lambda with predefined &amp;quot;start of work&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;end of work&amp;quot; times and have it automatically do that for you.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to know if something like this would be useful for you too and what do you think about it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vageli</author><text>Are you aware of cloud custodian out of Capital One? [0] Does this and much, much more (like delete noncompliant security groups, etc).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloudcustodian.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloudcustodian.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you&apos;re sleeping</title><url>https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-cost-saver</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aramalipoor</author><text>Just published a tiny CLI utility to save some bucks on AWS development environment while I&amp;#x27;m not really working.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aramalipoor&amp;#x2F;aws-cost-saver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;aramalipoor&amp;#x2F;aws-cost-saver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to stop&amp;#x2F;shutdown any resources (such as EC2 instances, RDS databases, ECS tasks, etc.) when you&amp;#x27;re done for the day and restore them back up next time you continue.&lt;p&gt;Currently it&amp;#x27;s in a very early stage, a hobby side-project :)&lt;p&gt;Ideally I&amp;#x27;m thinking to provide a CloudFormation template or terraform config for example, to provision a scheduled Lambda with predefined &amp;quot;start of work&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;end of work&amp;quot; times and have it automatically do that for you.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to know if something like this would be useful for you too and what do you think about it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>This is amazing....&lt;p&gt;Edit: I wonder if you could put this inside of a lambda with just a role.</text></comment>