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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by spdustin on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:00PM (#13072973)
Cloudwatch alarms can stop running EC2 instances. We do this to prevent accidentally leaving expensive instances running. If that helps a little.
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by fgpwd on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:47PM (#13076459)
Afaik the data is delayed and the damage might already be done by the time the alarm fires
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by spdustin on Thursday December 01, 2016 @02:50PM (#13082824)
For just running instances, that's not true. You set up a metric that checks if the instance is alive every minute, ten minutes, whatever, and set it's alarm condition to trigger once the metric is true for six samples, 600 samples, whatever you need. The alarm action: stop instance.
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