Stop and Start EC2 instances at predefined times Using Lambda and EventBridge – STOPINATOR 2.0 : Day 7

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DAY 7 – Stop and Start EC2 instances at predefined times Using Lambda and EventBridge – STOPINATOR 2.0

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Stop and Start EC2 instances at predefined times Using Lambda and EventBridge .

Reduce usage of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) usage by starting and stopping EC2 automatically.

Step 1 Creating a IAM Poly and execution role for Lambda.

Create IAM Policy

Goto IAM in AWS console and Click Policies
and Click Create Policy
Click on the JSON tab then copy and paste below code

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:Start*",
        "ec2:Stop*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Name the policy as Stopinator-II and click Create

Create IAM Role

Go to IAM Console and select Roles and click Create Roles

Comments	Screenshots
Select AWS Service
Then Choose Lambda and click next
Search for AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole and select it
Add Stopinator Policy also
Name the role and Click create role

Create an Lambda Function

STOP Function

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1. Go to lambda dashboard and click create function
2. Keep as Author from scratch and Name the function
3. Select Runtime	Python 3.9
4. Permissions, select the created Role

Goto Code and paste

import boto3
region = 'ap-southeast-2'
instances = ['i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx']
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', region_name=region)

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    ec2.stop_instances(InstanceIds=instances)
    print('stopped your instances: ' + str(instances))

Save and Deploy
Dont forget to add your instance name & your region

START Function

Repeat the steps 1 to 4 and add below code to

import boto3
region = 'ap-south-east-2'
instances = ['i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx']
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', region_name=region)

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    ec2.start_instances(InstanceIds=instances)
    print('started your instances: ' + str(instances))

Dont forget to add your instance name & your region

Save and Deploy

Testing lambda functions

Select your function and click test and see the lambda function is working as indented.

Schedule time to turn ON and OFF EC2 using EventBridge

Goto EventBridge from AWS console and Click Create rule

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Name the Rule
Define Pattern, Select Schedule and enter your CRON time. I am keeping 6PM everyday as my stop time .Use this link to create your cron
Select Target as your Lambda Function for Stoping	Select Stopinator-II-Stop
Now click Create
Repeat the steps for	Strating Instances

Congratulations you have successfully configured Stopinator 2.0