# Schedule non-production workloads
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Scale non-production environments to zero outside business hours — dev and staging clusters sitting idle overnight and on weekends represent pure waste. For sample commands to create CronJobs to scale dev/staging to zero outside business hours, see [this GitHub repository](https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-eks-cost-optimization-guide/blob/main/10-additional-strategies/off-hours-scaling.yaml)