[radedespodovski]

Hi, I am Rade from Microtica.

The benefit of Microtica Cost Optimizer over using CloudWatch+Lambda comes when you have to manage more different schedules. With CloudWatch+Lambda solution you also have to manage the schedule infrastructure no matter how simple that infrastructure is, this could become an overwhelming repetitive task.

We added additional features like: 1. automated resource tagging 2. enable/disable schedule 3. manual start/stop of resources assigned to a particular scheduler 4. cost and saving dashboard 5. notifications

Cost Optimizer is just one feature of the Microtica product. Microtica is a DevOps automation tool that you can use to provision complete cloud infrastructure and deliver applications on Kubernetes using CI/CD.

The components you are referring are ready peaces of infrastructure that you can just pick up, combine and provision in the cloud.

Behind the scenes, we register a schedule in our system and when start/stop event is fired, first we obtain temporary credentials (assume role) for the AWS account where resources to be scheduled reside, then we call AWS APIs to perform scheduling operations over EC2 and RDS.

[nostrebored]

Thanks for the explanation!