[barkingcat]

I find it price gouging that AWS doesn't already implement this on their own within their pricing structure and that you need a 3rd party tooling to do this.

[aynsof]

AWS Instance Scheduler is an official AWS Solution: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-sc...

It allows you to create automatic start and stop schedules for your Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances. It uses a combination of CloudWatch/Lambda/DynamoDB to check against tagged instances.

[aliswe]

Are you seriously alleging that NOT implementing a "stop resources when I sleep/am not around" feature amounts to price gouging?

[bufferoverflow]

If you don't like their prices, why don't you just switch to another provider? Plenty of good clouds. And even more dedicated / VPS servers, if you want truly crazy savings.

[pc86]

That's not what price gouging is.

[cybrix]

They earn more money by not doing this.

[spockz]

The downside of shutting down the resources is that there may be none available anymore in that sizing or pricing when you want to start them up again. I suppose they also don’t want to risk being liable for that.