ParkMyAws – stop paying for dev/staging AWS instances at night

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Automate AWS EC2 & RDS Scheduling - ParkMyAWS

Your non-production AWS runs 24/7. It shouldn't.

Automatically park EC2 and RDS instances at night and on weekends. Most teams save 30-65% on non-production costs in under 5 minutes.

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Monthly savings<br>€468<br>+12% vs last month

AWS Accounts<br>Production<br>Staging<br>Development

Running

Parked

Your Resources6 managed<br>ResourceTypeStateScheduleSaved<br>staging-api<br>i-0a1b2c3d

EC2<br>Running<br>business-hours<br>€89

dev-worker<br>i-1f2e3d4c

EC2<br>Parked<br>dev-hours<br>€67

qa-server<br>i-5a6b7c8d

EC2<br>Running<br>always-on<br>€34

db-staging<br>db-staging-1

RDS<br>Parked<br>dev-hours<br>€156

dev-postgres<br>db-dev-pg

RDS<br>Running<br>business-hours<br>€77

batch-worker<br>i-9e8d7c6b

EC2<br>Parked<br>nightly<br>€45

Schedule: Business Hours, Mon-Fri 09:00-18:00<br>Next: Parking 3 resources at 18:00

Your AWS bill doesn't care that it's 2am

Non-production resources sit idle 65% of the week: nights, weekends, and holidays. That idle time costs real money. Every month. Quietly.

Silent cost bleed<br>Your staging database has been running since last Tuesday. Nobody's touched it in 4 days. The meter kept ticking while your team slept, commuted, and watched Netflix.

Manual shutdown chaos<br>Someone stops the dev instances Friday afternoon. Monday morning, half the team can't work because nobody restarted them. The other half forgot to stop theirs entirely.

Multi-account blind spots<br>Resources scattered across 3 accounts and 5 regions. No single view of what's running, what it costs, or who left that "temporary" instance running 6 weeks ago.

Five minutes. Zero infrastructure changes.

Connect your account, pick a schedule, and start saving. Nothing to deploy, nothing to maintain.

01<br>Connect your AWS account<br>Create a cross-account IAM role with least-privilege permissions. Takes about 2 minutes.<br>Uses STS AssumeRole. No static access keys.

trust-policy.json<br>"Version": "2012-10-17",<br>"Statement": [{<br>"Effect": "Allow",<br>"Principal": {<br>"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::PARKMYAWS:root"<br>},<br>"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",<br>"Condition": {<br>"StringEquals": {<br>"sts:ExternalId": "your-external-id"<br>}]

02<br>We discover your resources<br>ParkMyAWS finds your EC2 and RDS instances across all enabled regions. No agents to install.<br>Multi-region discovery. No infrastructure changes.

resource discovery<br>$ discovering resources...<br>us-east-1  found 12 EC2, 3 RDS<br>eu-west-1  found 8 EC2, 1 RDS<br>discovery complete<br>total: 20 EC2, 4 RDS

03<br>Set a schedule<br>Pick a template or define custom hours. Business Hours, Extended, Weekends, or a cron expression.<br>You choose which resources to schedule. Full control.

Schedule template<br>Business Hours<br>Mon-Fri, 09:00-18:00

Extended Hours<br>Mon-Fri, 07:00-22:00

Custom Cron<br>0 9 * * 1-5 / 0 18 * * 1-5

04<br>Watch the savings stack up<br>See exactly how much you saved, broken down per resource. Get notified when resources start and stop.<br>Real-time savings dashboard with email alerts.

Savings this month<br>€0saved across 14 resources<br>i-0a1b2c3d4e staging-api€0<br>i-1f2e3d4c dev-worker€0<br>db-dev-postgres€0

How much are you burning?<br>Adjust the sliders. See what parking your non-production resources could save.

Monthly AWS spend€3,000<br>€500€50,000

Non-production resources40%<br>10%80%

You're currently wasting ~€780/mo on idle resources<br>Based on 65% idle time (nights + weekends + holidays)

Est. monthly savings<br>€0<br>Est. annual savings<br>€0<br>Start saving now

Want the full breakdown emailed to you? Get a free idle-waste audit

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Every plan includes every feature. You only pay for the scale you need.

EC2 & RDS Scheduling<br>Stop and start instances and databases on a schedule. Business hours, extended hours, weekends only, or fully custom cron expressions.

Any Region, Any Account<br>Connect multiple AWS accounts across any region. One dashboard for all your non-production resources.

IAM Role Security<br>Connects via IAM AssumeRole with minimal permissions. No credentials stored. Revoke access instantly from your AWS console.

Savings Dashboard<br>See exactly how much you saved this month, broken down per resource. Track trends over time.

Smart Notifications<br>Email, Slack, and Teams alerts when resources start, stop, or when something unexpected happens.

Schedule Pausing<br>Need a resource running outside schedule? Pause it with one click. Resume when you're done.

Supported services<br>Only services that can be cleanly stopped and started. No workarounds.

EC2<br>Stop and start instances on schedule

RDS<br>Stop and start databases including Aurora

Coming soonECS<br>Scale services to zero and back up

Secure by design.

ParkMyAWS connects to your account using an IAM Cross-Account Role with the minimum permissions needed. We never store credentials. We never access your data.

AWS STS AssumeRole, no static access keys stored<br>Least-privilege IAM policy: read-only discovery, scoped management actions<br>Supports EC2 instances and RDS databases (including Aurora)<br>No...

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