AWS idle cost calculator

Your dev, staging, and QA resources run 24/7, but nobody uses them at night or on weekends. Move the sliders to see what that idle time costs you, and what you would get back by parking it.

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You're currently wasting ~€780/mo on idle resources
Based on 65% idle time (nights + weekends + holidays)
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Estimates assume on-demand pricing and roughly 65% idle time across nights, weekends, and holidays, with about 45% of non-production spend recoverable by parking. If a resource is covered by a Savings Plan or Reserved Instance, your realized savings may be lower.

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A number you can act on, not another tool to babysit

You already know you could write a Lambda or deploy the free AWS Instance Scheduler. The hard part was never the on/off switch.

AWS Instance Scheduler is free, and a cron-driven Lambda is a weekend project. But then it is yours to maintain: a CloudFormation stack to patch, schedules that drift, and no one who can answer "did this actually save us anything?" The scheduling is easy. Keeping it honest and visible is the work most small teams quietly never get to.

ParkMyAWS gives you the outcome instead of the maintenance: connect an account, pick which EC2 and RDS resources to park, and watch a savings number grow per resource. When someone starts a parked instance off-hours, it gets re-parked. When your CTO asks what non-prod is costing, the answer is already on the dashboard.

The calculator above is the rough version of that number. The audit is the specific one. The product keeps it growing.