Scheduling AWS Autoscaling to create Instance and run your tasks
Introduction The purpose of this exercise is to not have a instance running for one off tasks but create the instance dynamically using a pre configured AMI image. We use this insance to create reports and upload the reports to S3 bucket. The below details are provided for configuring the instance and creating autoscaling groups which will fire up an AMI image and run at a specified time to achieve the goal. Download and Configure Auto Scaling Command Line Tool Google or use (http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/AutoScaling-2011-01-01.zip) Follow instruction in the Auto scaling tool "Readme.txt" which indicates to set the, Env...