On: AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances

[Macha]

Well that works if you're a startup in one timezone with no teams depending on your service. If you work on a larger company, it's quite possible the sun never sets on your project (west coast, east coast, Europe, India, Australia or SE Asia)

[Johnny555 → Macha]

If the sun never sets on your project, then you probably don't want to shut it down because you're using it 24x7.

But since a Lambda is a program, you can make the criteria as complex as you like.

Tag it with "shutdown=non-biz-hours", and "timezones=UTC-7,UTC+0,UTC+5:30" and your shutdown script can figure out when it's outside of business hours in all of those timezones and shut it down.

[kinkrtyavimoodh → Macha]

If the sun never sets on your project, why would you want to shut the instance down?

[grzm → kinkrtyavimoodh]

One reason would be that the savings is worth the increased latency. Depends on the situation.

[ryen → Macha]

I'd only do this strictly in dev or qa. Remote teams can always spin it back up if they need it on a wider schedule.