Emergency cost control for AWS accounts. Stop all services to save money without deleting anything.
pip install aws-hit-breaks# First time setup (creates secure IAM role)
aws hit breaks
# Pause all services to save money
aws hit breaks
# Resume services
aws hit breaks --resume
# See what would happen (safe mode)
aws hit breaks --dry-run- 🛡️ Secure: Uses dedicated IAM role with minimal permissions
- 🎯 Simple: Just run
aws hit breaks- no complex options - 💰 Cost Savings: Shows estimated monthly savings
- 🔄 Reversible: Resume everything exactly as it was
- 🔍 Safe: Dry-run mode to preview changes
- EC2 instances (stop/start)
- RDS databases (stop/start)
- ECS services (scale to zero/restore)
- Auto Scaling Groups (suspend/resume)
- Lambda provisioned concurrency (remove/restore)
AWS Hit Breaks requires you to create a dedicated IAM role with minimal required permissions. The tool provides a CloudFormation template for easy setup.
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.