Schedule ECS Fargate Tasks to stop and start with Amazon EventBridge Rule.

This is a simple CloudFormation that sets up stopping and starting of an existing ECS service by a schedule for specified tasks.

We have confirmed operation in the following environments

• ECS(Fargate type)

 

AWS EventBridge Scheduler (Recommend)

List of resources to be created

• AWS EventBridge Scheduler
• IAM Role for EventBridge Scheduler

Setup

Extract eventbridge-scheduler.yaml from the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.

Parameters

• NamePrefix: Prefix
• EcsClusterName: ECS cluster name
• EcsServiceName: ECS service name
• ScheduleExpressionTimezone: Time Zone
• StopScheduleExpression: CRON expression specifying the time to stop
• StartScheduleExpression: CRON expression for time to start
• StopDesiredCount: number specified for DesiredCount to stop (stop=0)
• StartDesiredCount: number specified for DesiredCount to starting

[Time Zone]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

[AWS EventBridge Scheduler Using universal targets]   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/UserGuide/managing-targets-universal.html#supported-universal-targets

 

AWS EventBridge Rule and Lambda (Old)

List of resources to be created

• AWS Event Rule
• AWS Lambda(and permission)
• IAM Role for Lambda

Setup

Extract events-rule.yaml from the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.

Parameters

• NamePrefix: Prefix
• EcsClusterName: ECS cluster name
• EcsServiceName: ECS service name
• EcsClusterArn: ECS cluster ARN
• StopScheduleExpression: CRON expression specifying the time to stop (UTC)
• StartScheduleExpression: CRON expression for time to start (UTC)
• StopDesiredCount: number specified for DesiredCount to stop (stop=0)
• StartDesiredCount: number specified for DesiredCount to starting

[Schedule Expressions for Rules]   https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/ScheduledEvents.html