Leveraging AWS Solutions

The AWS Solutions library is a collection of curated solutions that address a specific technical or business use case. These use cases apply to various industries such as retail, travel and hospitality, financial services, and advertising, as well as various technological use cases such as data lakes, monitoring, and cost optimization. An AWS Solution is similar to the CUDOS dashboard, which we learned about in the previous chapter, in that you can deploy an AWS CloudFormation template and create a solution that’s ready for use right out of the box. Additionally, you can customize the template to meet your needs.

The two solutions we’ll learn about in this chapter are called Instance Scheduler on AWS and Cost Optimizer for WorkSpaces on AWS. The former helps automate the starting and stopping of your Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS database instances. This solution optimizes your costs by stopping resources that are not in use. Turning...