Instance Scheduler on AWS adds enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation

AWS Instance Scheduler Release Notes

AWS announced enhanced scheduling orchestration, self-service troubleshooting, an optional EC2 insufficient-capacity retry flow, and automatic creation of a dedicated EventBridge bus for scheduling events.

Key Updates

• Enhanced Scheduling Orchestration: Track AWS tagging events to improve scaling performance and address cost-scaling concerns.
• Self-Service Troubleshooting: Perform troubleshooting in spoke accounts using informational resource tags.
• Insufficient Capacity Retry Flow: Automatically retry failed start actions using alternate instance types when EC2 encounters insufficient capacity errors.
• Dedicated EventBridge Bus: Automatically create a dedicated EventBus for scheduling-related events to streamline integrations and automation workflows.

What to do

• Leverage enhanced scheduling orchestration to improve scalability and cost management.
• Utilize self-service troubleshooting to empower distributed cloud engineers.
• Configure the insufficient capacity retry flow to ensure workload reliability.
• Streamline event routing with the dedicated EventBridge bus for better automation workflows.

Source: AWS release notes

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