We would like to save money by shutdown Kafka on the weekend in aws. Does anyone has scripts to do that?
Hi @Erosney
welcome to the forum 
just to be sure:
are you running a self managed Kafka cluster on EC2 instances?
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michael
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No. They aren’t Managed clusters.
mmh not clear how your architecture/deployment looks like.
good you provide some details?
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If it’s EKS, you need some way to store and restore the data AFAIK, since you can only do so by destroying the cluster. Optionally you could switch to other instances for the weekend. But without knowing your setup, it’s hard to give proper advise.
The architecture/deployment it’s EKS
hi
as @gklijs mentioned there is no optimal way to stop the cluster
one thing you could think about is to scale the kafka and zookeeper replicas to 0, though I’m not sure whether it has that big effect on costs
another thing might be to backup the cluster, stop/destroy the cluster on Friday and recreate the cluster and restore the data on Monday
there is a nice blog post how to implement it
never tested in a real world setup but sounds promising
best,
michael
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