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Schedule standby workers for a Deadline Cloud fleet with CloudFormation - Deadline Cloud

Schedule standby workers for a Deadline Cloud fleet with CloudFormation

The fleet_standby_scheduling CloudFormation template schedules standby worker count changes on a Deadline Cloud fleet based on a time schedule. Standby workers are a warm pool of idle workers that can start processing jobs immediately without waiting for new instances to launch. By scheduling standby workers during business hours and not during off-hours, you reduce job start latency when your team is active while avoiding the cost of idle workers overnight and on weekends. For the template source, see fleet_standby_scheduling on the GitHub website.

The template works with any existing Deadline Cloud fleet, including service-managed and customer-managed fleets. By default, it sets the standby worker count to 2 at 8:00 AM UTC Monday through Friday and resets it to 0 at 5:00 PM UTC.

The template creates the following resources:

  • A Lambda function that calls the Deadline Cloud UpdateFleet API. The function reads the fleet's current configuration first to avoid overwriting other settings.

  • IAM roles for the Lambda function and the EventBridge scheduler.

  • Two EventBridge schedules that trigger the Lambda function at the start and end of business hours.

To customize the schedule, update the BusinessHoursStartCron, BusinessHoursEndCron, and ScheduleTimezone parameters. To schedule multiple fleets, deploy one stack per fleet.