Scheduling: Saving Round the Clock
Typical infrastructure load is not homogenous. There are resources active round the clock, as well as those for which the active time is followed by idle hours. There are regular working hours for the capacities used by the enterprise teams for their daily routines, as well as peaks and dropdowns related to customer activities, Database loads, etc. And the best point here is – once a load variations are regular and predictable, they can be scheduled. Scheduling is quite a simple mechanism allowing you to get your resources turned off automatically when they are not needed, and start them back right before you are going to use them. Unlike auto scaling based on creation and termination of resources depending on the demand, scheduling is targeted to resources that are expected to have longer lifetime. As compared to other FinOps optimization procedures, it takes relatively small effort for implementation and does not bring significant changes into the infrastructure composition – s