Example: How to Use AWS Instance Scheduler to Automatically Start and Stop EC2 instances

Go to your Amazon DynamoDB console and click Tables. There will be 2 tables, <stack-name>-ConfigTable and <stack-name>-StateTable. We will make some changes only on ConfigTable. You can find a lot of sampe config inside.

Or you can go from

1. CloudFormation
2. Stacks
3. Scheduler Created by you

from 

Resources, click ConfigTable.

First, we need to create a Period that defines the time(s) the instance should run. Pick one of the sample Period and click Action > Duplicate.

A popup will appear and you can change everything you need like (more options in the docs):

• begintime, instance start time (24-hour format),
• description,
• endtime, instance stop time (24-hour format),
• name, period name (need to be unique),
• weekdays, days of the week the instance will run.
• then click Save.

Then create a Schedule, that specify when instances should run. Pick one of the sample schedule and click Action > Duplicate.

A popup will appear and you can change everything you need like (more options in the docs):

• description,
• name, must unique because it will be used as tag value on the tagged resource,
• periods, must at least 1 period to be used to defines time(s) the instance should run,
• timezone,
• then click Save.

Now you need to tag all of your instances that will be affected by the scheduler.