Cloud Instance Scheduling

When adopting or optimizing your public cloud use, it’s important to eliminate waste spend from idle resources – which is why you need to include an instance scheduler in your plan. An instance scheduler ensures that non-production resources – those used for development, staging, testing, and QA – are stopped when they’re not being used, so you aren’t charged for compute time you’re not actually using.

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each offer an instance scheduler option and let's compare the offerings.