{"id":3543,"date":"2016-06-23T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2017-10-19T03:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:45:27","slug":"tutorial-how-to-pause-an-aws-elastic-beanstalk-environment-using-the-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/tutorial-how-to-pause-an-aws-elastic-beanstalk-environment-using-the-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"[TUTORIAL] HOW TO PAUSE AN AWS ELASTIC BEANSTALK ENVIRONMENT USING THE DASHBOARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you have set up a test elastic beanstalk environment because you don’t want to put at risk your production elastic bean.
\nYou don’t want to pay for the time you’re not using it, and there’s no freaking “Pause Environment” option.<\/p>\n

\"aws-elasticbean-no-pause-option\"<\/p>\n

all you can do is “Terminate Environment”? but then to crete the damn environment it takes forever to configure (if you’re using the dashboard), so we don’t want to do that.<\/p>\n

If you try to terminate the associated EC2 instance, the Elastic Beanstalk environment will automatically provision a new machine for you, so that doesn’t work. What do you do?<\/p>\n

Open the Elastic Bean environment you want to pause and go to “Configuration”
\n\"Screen<\/p>\n

On the Scaling card, click on the Gear icon to change its settings<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

in the “Auto Scaling” options, set the “Minimum instance count” to 0, and the “Maximum instance count” to 0<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

Hit “Apply”
\n\"Screen<\/p>\n

Wait for your environment to apply the new configuration<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now your health status has switched to gray. It’s now paused and you won’t be paying for the test ec2 instance while you’re not working on it.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

If you are curious and you check the\u00a0ec2 instances associated to the environment, it\/them should be terminated now, but now the environment won’t try to provision new ones.
\n\"thanks-bow\"<\/p>\n

Savings in your pocket. Cheers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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You don’t want to pay for the time you’re not using it, and there’s no freaking “Pause Environment” option. all you can do is “Terminate Environment”? but then to crete the damn environment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,36],"tags":[1522,1156,1521,1520,1519,1523,1024],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-howto-2","tag-amazon-cloud","tag-aws","tag-aws-cloud","tag-elastic-bean","tag-elastic-beanstalk","tag-pause-environment","tag-tutorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-V9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3164,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-have-a-play-framework-app-autostart-during-boot-on-elastic-beanstalk-centos-ec2-instances\/","url_meta":{"origin":3543,"position":0},"title":"How to have a Play framework app autostart during boot on Elastic Beanstalk CentOS ec2 instances","author":"gubatron","date":"September 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"So you've created an Elastic Beanstalk environment, you have a play framework distribution which you've created using play dist (either on your local environment, or right there on the server, whatever you prefer) play dist outputs a my-app-1.0.zip file which has a self-contained version of your app with all the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Code"","block_context":{"text":"Code","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4073,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/remotely-code-signing-windows-apps-using-aws-virtual-servers-and-a-physical-usb-key\/","url_meta":{"origin":3543,"position":1},"title":"Remotely Code Signing Windows Apps Using AWS Virtual Servers and a Physical USB Key","author":"gubatron","date":"April 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"As a developer, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to code sign your Windows applications using a physical USB signing key, but you don't have direct access to a Windows machine. 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