Cloud instances bill by the hour (or the minute) – and right now you’re burning money. Use snooze to auto-shutdown your instances in 45 minutes. Add snooze to your ~/.bashrc alias snooze='sudo shutdown -c ; sudo shutdown -h +45 &' snooze When you want to extend your session, run snooze Broadcast message from ec2-user@ip-172-31-43-250 (/dev/pts/1) at 2:50 ... The system is going down for halt in 45 minutes! How does this work? shutdown -c cancels the shutdown, and shutdown -h +45 schedules...
