Hello and welcome to this course, which will explain how to use the AWS Instance Scheduler to control EC2 and RDS instance spend. You’ll learn how to automate the stopping and starting of your instances with this tool so that you can reduce costs across your AWS environment. 

Before we get any further, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Alana Layton and I am an AWS Content Creator here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

This course has been created for those who are using EC2 or RDS instances and looking to better control costs for those instances when they are not in use. If you’re a developer, cloud engineer, or cloud financial operations professional looking to optimize instance spend, this course is for you. 

By the end of this course, you will have a greater understanding of the Instance Scheduler on AWS, including: 

• What the tool is and the benefit it provides

• How to implement the tool and 

• How to create custom schedules to stop and start your instances

To get the most out of this course you should have an understanding of Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch.  For more information on these services please see our existing content here: 

• Compute Fundamentals for AWS 
• Database Fundamentals for AWS ​​
• An Overview of Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudFormation: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

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