Instances With TTL

One of the primary benefits of moving to the cloud is the transition from capital expenditures to operational ones. This bot helps reinforce that philosophy by enabling the use of “Temporary Instances” that are deleted after X number of hours. The “Instances With TTL” bot does so by reading the instance’s Time To Live (TTL) tag and taking the value to schedule the instance deletion time.

Recommended Action

This bot works in conjunction with a tagging policy. To enforce Temporary Instances as a policy, create a separate bot that inspects creation and modification events to ensure that instances have a TTL tag (and keep it) and that the tag has an appropriate maximum value.

Severity

High

Resource Types Inspected

Instance

Reactive Hookpoints

resource.created resource.modified