You can now use nOps Scheduler to hibernate EC2 instances and then bring them back to life when you need them. The hibernation process stores the in-memory state of the instance, along with its private and elastic IP addresses, allowing it to pick up exactly where it left off. While creating a schedule, simply toggle the Hibernate option and nOps Scheduler will hibernate the scheduled resources instead of stopping them.

When you hibernate an instance, Amazon EC2 signals the operating system to perform hibernation (suspend-to-disk). Hibernation saves the contents from the instance memory (RAM) to your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) root volume. Amazon EC2 persists the instance's EBS root volume and any attached EBS data volumes.

The addition of this new feature does not affect the functionality of the nOps Scheduler, it simply adds more diversity into the nOps Scheduler. The scheduling process overall is still the same as it was before. You can create a schedule directly from the nOps Scheduler, or you can use the nOps ShareSave - Resource Scheduler recommendations to automatically configure the recommended schedules.

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