Snooze to Save Money

Cloud instances bill by the hour (or the minute) – and right now you’re burning money. Use snooze to auto-shutdown your instances in 45 minutes.

Add snooze to your ~/.bashrc

alias snooze='sudo shutdown -c ;  sudo shutdown -h +45 &'
snooze

When you want to extend your session, run snooze

Broadcast message from ec2-user@ip-172-31-43-250
	(/dev/pts/1) at 2:50 ...

The system is going down for halt in 45 minutes!

How does this work?

shutdown -c cancels the shutdown, and shutdown -h +45 schedules a shutdown in 45min.

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