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Using AWS Systems Manager to save money with automation

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Hi everyone ! How u guys doing today ? We all know very well cloud computing has a lot of benefits but, we should also say that when you get your bill, you may be surprised if you are not enough diligent and organised. Remember, you pay for what you use, for as long as you use it. I will bring up a real case a friend of mine was tellling me the other day. He works for an university in Canada and a lot of users are professors. They do a lot of research and as a result, they need multiple machines and , many times, very robust machines. In the cloud world, this can cost a lot of money. As we know, you pay for what you use. Can you imagine how the bill can go high if you don't manage those machines very well ? He was telling me how surprised they were when, a few times,  they got the bill and they found out, many machines had been let running when there was no need and as a result, the bill was insanely high. Well, in this case, systems manager can help us out. We can set