Stopping OCI instances after hours has a native answer today: Resource Scheduler, an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service that, according to its release notes, shipped on May 21, 2024. Before that, the
Friday, 6:10pm. The terraform plan says "12 to add, 3 to change, 1 to destroy". You read it, nothing looks odd. Apply. Green bar. You get up for a coffee and when you come back the alerts channel has
You sign up for a new tool to see your infrastructure in one place. First onboarding step: "Connect your cloud". And the form asks for the tenancy's admin API key. The master one. The one that can cre
The arithmetic is easy: a QA environment that runs 24/7 but is only used from 9 to 7, Monday to Friday, is powered on three times longer than it needs to be. Shutting it down outside those hours can c
You inherited an account with 300 resources created by hand over three years, and you were asked to "put it in Terraform". You have two paths: generate the code automatically from the infrastructure t
A public IP looks free because it has no CPU and no disk. It is not. Since February 1, 2024, AWS bills USD 0.005 per hour for every public IPv4 address, whether it is attached to a resource or not. Th
The question always arrives the same way: "if we shut dev down at night, how much does the invoice drop?". The short answer is less than the compute math says and more than most people expect. The lon