Intelligent autostopping of resources in computing environments

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method for automatically stopping resources, the method comprising:

• detecting, by a traffic detection module, that a first resource is idle for a set period of time, wherein during the idle time the first resource has not received any traffic consisting of a remote machine request or processed any request received form a remote machine;
• instructing an application to redirect subsequent traffic intended for the first resource to a proxy machine, the redirection implemented based at least on a rule set and the detection that the first resource was idle for the set period of time;
• performing a shutdown of the first resource based on the rule set;
• receiving subsequent traffic by the proxy machine that was intended for the first resource;
• performing start-up of the first resource based on the rule set;
• and
• directing traffic to the first resource by the proxy machine in response when first resource start-up is complete.