Revisions - Instance Scheduler on AWS

Revisions

Date Change
February 2018 Initial release
July 2018 Added clarification on begintime and endtime; added an example schedule configuration
October 2018 Added information on encrypted Amazon EBS volumes; added clarification on stack name length and Amazon RDS tag restrictions
May 2019 Added information on hibernating Amazon Ec2 instances, scheduling RDS DB instances that are part of an Amazon Aurora cluster, new schedule CLI arguments, SSM maintenance windows, Parameter Store integration, and clarification on schedules with adjacent running periods
October 2019 Added information regarding the AWS Regions where Instance Scheduler on AWS has been validated
March 2020 Bug fixes
June 2020 Clarified time zone information for period rule start and stop times; for information about updates and changes for v1.3.2, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
September 2020 AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) (AWS CDK) conversion and documentation enhancements; for more information about changes to v1.3.3, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
October 2020 Updated the template in Appendix D and updated the documentation for the Hibernate Field.
April 2021 Updated the SSM Maintenance Window functionality for EC2 instance scheduling, Configured solution to work in AWS GovCloud, and bug fixes. For more information about v1.4.0, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
May 2022 Minor update and bug fixes. For more information about v1.4.1, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
January 2023 Minor update and bug fixes. For more information about v1.4.2, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
May 2023

Deprecated override_status scheduling flag, Resource Scheduler vs Instance Scheduler, add feature for AWS Organizations, simplify cross account scheduling to eliminate the need for cross account roles.

For more information about v1.5.0, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.

July 2023

Added guidance on how to manage Infrastructure as Code, and updating to version 1.5.x. Additional Troubleshooting, Features and Benefits added.

For more information about v1.5.1, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.

October 2023 Minor update, security patching, and added additional sample cost tables in the documentation. For more information about v1.5.2, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
October 2023 Release v1.5.3 Security patch. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
December 2023 Documentation update to resolve discrepencies, added actional section to the AppRegistry section. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
February 2024 Release v1.5.4 Security patch. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
April 2024 Release v1.5.5 Security patch. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
June 2024 Release v3.0.0: Major release. Added support for EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB. Added operational insights dashboard. Documentation update to include Operator and Developer guides. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
June 2024 v3.0.1: Minor update. Modified CLI install, Uninstall solution instructions and updated links. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
July 2024 v3.0.2: Minor update. Security patch. Fixed update path issue for AWS CloudFormation managed schedules. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
July 2024 v3.0.3: Security patch. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
August 2024 v3.0.4: Minor update. Upgrade instructions have been updated. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
September 2024 v3.0.5: Minor update. Fix for Nth weekday scheduling bug, and update to RDS scheduling permissions. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
November 2024 v3.0.6: Minor update. Fixed Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS retry logic and updated Amazon RDS maintenance windows to start 10 minutes early. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.
November 2024 v3.0.7: Minor update. For more information, refer to the CHANGELOG.md file in the GitHub repository.