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Development VM Shut Down Policy

Ben Serrette edited this page Jul 13, 2020 · 2 revisions

In order to conserve resources on AWS, we should shut down (not terminate) any Large or greater EC2 instances when not used.

  • Machines should be stopped by 6PM if unused, especially on Friday afternoon.
  • Machines should be stopped not terminated. We want them to keep them. We just don't want to waste money having them run when unneeded.
  • Machines can be restarted as needed.
  • The Bastion should never be stopped.
  • If the VM's state is controlled by a service (e.g. Kubernetes), don't worry about stopping it because it may be auto-restarted.
  • This policy does not apply to production systems.

Specific instances that should be shut down include the Janus servers.

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