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Scheduling · Medium severity

SageMaker Endpoint Non-Production Scheduling Opportunity

A real-time endpoint bills for its instances continuously from the moment it is InService, whether or not anything invokes it.

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AWSprovider
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWS

Found, explained, handed over.

Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Schedule the non-production SageMaker endpoint off-hours. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
SageMaker Endpoints on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. Recommended off-hours window (start/stop cron, timezone) from the heatmap.
  2. SageMaker endpoints have no native stop. Pause by DeleteEndpoint off-hours and recreate from the saved EndpointConfigName before working hours.
  3. Automate the delete/recreate with an EventBridge schedule + Lambda (or CI/CD), preserving the EndpointConfigName.
  4. For bursty or intermittent traffic, migrating to a serverless endpoint avoids the teardown entirely.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Scheduling. Resources running 24x7 with a clear off-hours usage pattern, ready for start and stop scheduling.
Where it appears
The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1611
Full reference

SageMaker Endpoint Non-Production Scheduling Opportunity

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  • $30M+annualised cloud spend under management
  • 550K+resources tracked since launch
  • 20-60%off the bill in the first month
  • SOC 2Type II report, plus ISO 27001

Figures published on zop.dev.

Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console· Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console·