Reduce Your Cloud Costs
Running your instances and virtual machines 24-hours a day, 7 days a week is not always what you want. Many times, you simply want to have them running for only part of the day.
With Skeddly, you can reduce your costs by scheduling your cloud resources to adjust power or not run when they are not needed. Some refer to this as "parking" your instances.
Let's See Some Numbers
For example, in the AWS Virginia region (us-east-1), a t2.medium EC2 instance running Linux costs $0.047 per hour. Running that EC2 instance 24 hours a day for 1 week would cost you a total of $7.90.
Committing to a reserved instance for 1 full year would cost you $275.00 upfront. Your weekly EC2 costs would be cut to $5.29, for a savings of 34%.
However, if your EC2 instance only needs to be running 7am to 7pm, Monday through Friday, then you can save money using Skeddly to schedule your EC2 instance to run only during these hours. By scheduling the EC2 instance's "off time", the weekly costs are reduced to $2.82. That's a cost savings of 64%.
| EC2 On Demand Cost: | $0.047 per hour |
| EC2 Cost Before Skeddly: | $7.90 per week |
| EC2 Cost After Skeddly: | $2.82 per week |
| Savings: | 64% |
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2
- Start and stop your instances so they run during business-hours only.
- Stop development and staging instances at the end of the day.
- Enforce a tag-or-terminate policy.
- Decrease your EC2 instance type on weekends or at night when less power is needed.
- Disable fast snapshot restores on EBS snapshots.
Amazon RDS
- Start and stop your RDS databases so they run during business-hours only.
- Restore and terminate your RDS instances so they run during business-hours only.
- Decrease your RDS instance class on weekends or at night when less power is needed.
Amazon Redshift
- Restore and terminate your Redshift clusters so they run during business-hours only.
- Resize your Redshift clusters on weekends or at night when less power is needed.
Amazon DynamoDB
- Raise and lower your DynamoDB table's read and write capacity to match the power necessary.
Amazon WorkSpaces
- Start and stop your workspaces so they run only when they are needed.
Amazon Lightsail
- Restore and terminate your Lightsail instances so they run during business-hours only.
Amazon AppStream 2.0
- Start and stop your fleets so they run only when they are needed.
Amazon Elastic Container Service
- Update your ECS services so they run many service tasks only when they are needed.
Most importantly, save money by not running your instances when they do not need to run.
Clean-up Unused Resources
Keeping stale and unused resources around costs you money. Skeddly can delete those unused resources for you.
- Delete Unattached EBS Volumes
- Delete Unused CloudWatch Alarms
- Delete Unused Elastic Load Balancers
- Delete Unused WorkSpaces
- Delete S3 objects
- Erase Deleted S3 Objects
All of this is done automatically by Skeddly.
Microsoft Azure
Virtual Machines
- Start and stop your virtual machines so they run during business-hours only.
- Stop development and staging VMs at the end of the day.
Google Cloud Platform
Google Compute Engine
- Start and stop your VM instances so they run during business-hours only.
- Stop development and staging VM instances at the end of the day.
- Decrease your VM instance type on weekends or at night when less power is needed.
- Resize your managed instance groups on weekends or at night when fewer VM instances are needed.
Google Cloud SQL
- Start and stop your SQL instances so they run during business-hours only.
- Stop development and staging SQL instances at the end of the day.