
Stop untagged EC2 instances
WORKFLOW
This workflow looks at all of the EC2 instances in a given account and region and stops the ones that are untagged. Requires an AWS account with permissions to delete stop EC2 instances.
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This workflow looks at all of the EC2 instances in a given account and region and stops the ones that are untagged.
Prerequisites
Before you run this workflow, you will need the following:
- An AWS account.
- An AWS IAM user with permissions to list and terminate EC2 instances (if not run in dry run mode).
- One or more running EC2 instances that are untagged.
Run the workflow
Follow these steps to run the workflow:
-
Add your AWS credentials as a Connection:
- Click Setup
- Find the Connection named
my-aws-account
and click Edit(✎). Use the following values:- KEY:
ACCESS KEY ID
- VALUE: Enter your AWS access key id associated with the account
- KEY:
SECRET ACCESS KEY
- VALUE: Enter your AWS secret access key associated with the account
- KEY:
- Click Save
-
Click Run workflow and wait for the workflow run page to appear.
-
Supply following parameters to the modal:
- KEY:
region
- VALUE: The AWS region to run in
- KEY:
dryRun
- VALUE: True if you dont want to actually delete the resources. Use this to test the workflow and ensure it is behaving as expected.
- KEY:
-
Warning: If you run the workflow with the
dryRun
parameter set tofalse
, instances not in compliance with this workflow policy will immediately be stopped.
Run the workflow on a schedule
Follow these steps to run this workflow on a schedule:
- Un-comment out the Trigger block in the workflow file:
TIP: If you're using the Relay code editor, highlight the
triggers
section and type⌘ + /
(Mac) orCtrl + /
(Windows) to uncomment.
# triggers:
# - name: schedule
# source:
# type: schedule
# schedule: '0 * * * *'
# binding:
# parameters:
# region: us-east-1
# dryRun: true
- Configure the
schedule
trigger:- Supply the run interval in cron format.
- Configure the following parameter bindings:
- Specify the
region
to run in. - Specify whether
dryRun
should be set totrue
orfalse
.
- Specify the
- Click Save changes