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Aws new service Canvas in sagemaker is a money sucker! is charging me $2000 without me really using it. And their customer service closed right after you start the chat or the phone call. It is literally impossible to close things in canvas or sagemaker. I spent hours on this to figure it out
I’m literally pissed by this ridiculous aws service !
I did an experiment on Aug 17 in SageMaker and thought I turned off everything, but now I am being billed over $150/day!! I need step-by-step instructions to turn off (or delete) SageMaker. Please and thank you!!!
You can use Lifecycle configurations to set up an automatic job that will stop your instance after inactivity.
There's a GitHub repository which has samples that you can use. In the repository, there's a auto-stop-idle script which will shutdown your instance once it's idle for more than 1 hour.
What you need to do is
- to create a Lifecycle configuration using the script and
- associate the configuration with the instance. You can do this when you edit or create a Notebook instance.
If you think 1 hour is too long you can tweak the script. This line has the value.
After we've burned quite a lot of money by forgetting to turn off these machines, I've decided to create a script. It's based on AWS' script, but provides an explanation why the machine was or was not killed. It's pretty lightweight because it does not use any additional infrastructure like Lambda.
Here is the script and the guide on installing it! It's just a simple lifecycle configuration!