ec2-auto-shutdown is a systemd service that helps you reduce AWS costs. It will shut down an instance automatically when
- there is no SSH activity for configured period of time and;
- average load is bellow configured threshold and;
- there are not ESTABLSIHED http network connections
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vivami/ec2-auto-shutdown/master/install.sh | sudo bashConfig file is located at /etc/ec2-auto-shutdown/ec2-auto-shutdown-config.
Restart service after making changes using:
$ sudo systemctl restart ec2-auto-shutdown