Stop ECS cluster temporarily

Question

I want to stop EC2 instances after office hours to save costs. How can I do the same with ECS instances? Even if I stop all tasks/services, the instance is still there? Do I sto

Answer 1

You can use the "Scheduled Actions" feature of Auto Scaling Groups. Starts similar to Kerem Baydoğan's answer From EC2 Management Console:

1 Click Auto Scaling Groups from the left menu.

2 Select the group from the list.

3 Select "Scheduled Actions" from the bar that appeared in the lower middle of the screen.

4 Click on create scheduled action

5 Fill the fields as you see fit and notice that under recurrence there is also a cron option for extra flexibility.