It enables to automate variety of AWS key opreations such as backup,
instance start/stop, and etc...
Also, it provides actions towards variety of resources other than EC2,
such as RDS start/stop, EBS snapshot creation, and etc...
By using Job Automation in Cloud Automator, you will be able to automate various type of operations.
It supports your business from "Lowering operation work load", "Cost reduction", and "Coordination with other systems".
By using Cloud Automator, you can automate operations which needs to be done routinely.
For example, periodically create EBS snapshots and keep those upto 50 generations.
This gives you the freedom to restore at anytime with designated generation.
Also, you can designate duration of the operation, which provides more detailed settings than Amazon DLM.
By using Cloud Automator, you can start/stop EC2 instances based on your configurated schedule.
With this feature, you can stop servers outside business hours which leads to huge cost savings.
Using Cloud Automator "HTTP Trigger" and "SQS Trigger", the existing operation systems such as RunBookAutomation tool, Zabbix, and Datadog, etc.. can automate AWS resource modifications and operations based on monitoring results.
by slecting execution conditions (Triggers) and operations (Actions), you can automate the operation quickly and easily. Also, by combining multiple jobs (configured operations), you can execute multipe jobs automatically without human intervene.
When you automate AWS operations without Cloud Automator, you need following work.
You need to prepare an environment which you run automation programs
You need to understand AWS API and SDK.
Also, you need to have deep undersanding over API characteristics
You need to work on programing as well as testing for Automation program
You need to consider and utilize re-try and notification mechanism based on the situation when error happnes.
You need to consider how to coordinate with existing monitorign system and others...
AWS always come up with new features and/or updates and you need to cope with such changes.
You need to cope with programming language, library and AWS SDK version-up.
You need to sufficiently keep logs generated during automation processes.
You need to ensure the security level for automation system itself.
You need to monitor automation system behavor and provide troubleshooting when problem happens.
Cloud Automator releases you from those pain points and let you focus on your core business role.
