The 'Check for forgetting to stop resources' task is a function that checks if EC2, RDS, Redshift, and WorkSpaces are running, and notifies and tags them accordingly. Notifications are available via email, Slack, and Teams. By using this task to tag forgotten resources and then executing a separate task to stop the resources, it is possible to reduce costs for verification environments, etc. Please refer to the following page for more information about the task to stop resources.
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The procedure for creating a task is as follows.
- From the header menu, click "TASK" - "Check" - "Check for forgetting to stop resources".
- A list of tasks will be displayed. Once you have created a task, you can edit or delete it from this screen. At first, there are no tasks, so click the CREATE button.
- Enter the conditions and click the CREATE button.
The following is a description of the items on the screen.
| Name | The name of the task. |
| Organization | Specify the organization. Members of the same organization can browse and edit. |
| AWS account | Linked AWS accounts will be displayed. Select the target AWS account. |
| Region | Select the target region. |
| Target to check | Target to be checked. You can send notification emails and tag targets when EC2 with status running, RDS with status available, Redshift clusters, and WorkSpaces exist in the specified region for the specified AWS account. |
| Check conditions | Specify the condition to be checked. If you select "Resources with no single tag," you can further add "Include EC2 instances without Name tag" as a condition. |
| Notification email address | The email address of the recipient of the notification. The email addresses of the members of the organization set for the task will be displayed. An email will be sent only when there is a resource that you forgot to stop. |
| Slack notification | Set the Slack webhook URL that you want to be notified if there is a resource that you forgot to stop. |
| Teams notification | Set the Teams webhook URL that you want to be notified if there is a resource that you forgot to stop. |
| Tag to add to a resource that you forgot to stop | Specify a tag to attach to the resource that you forgot to stop. By executing a task to stop EC2 or a task to stop RDS (DB instance) after this task, you can stop the resource that you forgot to stop. |