Zero Idle Compute Cost
Your EC2 compute instance automatically stops when inactive. You pay $0.00/hour for compute while you sleep, work, or travel.
Paperless-NGX On-Demand
Run your personal Paperless-NGX instance on AWS for ~$1.50–$2.40/month instead of $80+/month. Sleeps when idle, wakes up on browser access or S3 drop, and shuts down safely when indexing completes.
Key Highlights
Section titled “Key Highlights”Seamless Edge Wake-Up
CloudFront KeyValueStore routes traffic instantly. Visiting your custom domain wakes the instance and shows an auto-refreshing progress splash.
6-Layer Task-Drain Watchdog
The shutdown watchdog validates HTTP inactivity, Celery task completion, CPU thresholds, lockfiles, and database backup before stopping.
Drop-and-Forget Ingestion
Drop PDFs directly into an S3 inbox bucket from mobile shortcuts, email forwarders, or scanner scripts to wake the instance headless.