EC2 - Offhours Support

Offhours are based on current time of the machine that is running custodian. Note, in this case you could tag an instance with the following two tags: StopAfterHours: off=(M-F,18);tz=est; and StartAfterHours: on=(M-F,8). This would have the instance turn off every weekday at 6pm NY time, and turn on every day at 8am California time (since if no tz is set, it uses the default which is pt). Note when custodian runs, if it’s 6:00pm or 6:59 pm NY time, it will shut down the VM you tagged this way. The key is the hour integer on the NY clock matching 18. If custodian runs at 5:59pm or 7:00pm NY time, it won’t shut down the VM. Same idea for starting.

The reason we filter for only seeing instances older than 1 hour, if a dev is on a VM that is shut down by the off hours schedule, and they turn it back on, if we run custodian again we don’t want to keep shutting down the VM on the dev repeatedly.

policies:
  - name: stop-after-hours
    resource: ec2
    filters:
      - type: offhour
        tag: CustodianOffHours
        default_tz: pt
        offhour: 19
      - type: instance-age
        hours: 1
    actions:
      - stop

  - name: start-after-hours
    resource: ec2
    filters:
      - type: onhour
        tag: CustodianOffHours
        default_tz: pt
        onhour: 7
      - type: value
        value: 1
        key: LaunchTime
        op: less-than
        value_type: age
    actions:
      - start

For detailed information on offhours/onhours support and configuration, see Example offhours policy.