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dirkpetersen / froster

Froster is a user-friendly archiving tool for teams that move data between Posix file systems and S3 like object storage systems such as AWS Glacier
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EC2 idle shutdown best practices #11

Closed dirkpetersen closed 5 months ago

dirkpetersen commented 1 year ago

Users are often scared to leave cloud instances running which can hamper cloud adoption. Froster has an experimental idle detection which lets ec2 instances self-terminate after a few days (72 hours by default). It has a monitoring cron job in systemd that is run hourly and if this cron job has detected an idle state 72 consecutive times the machine will be terminated.

Is this a reasonable approach for Amazon Linux 2003?

function AWSBoto._monitor_is_idle: https://github.com/dirkpetersen/froster/blob/main/froster.py#L3915

victormachadoperez commented 5 months ago

For future development