Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Components

• Launch template or configuration
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups
  • minimum, maximum and desired capacity
• Scaling policies: When should the resources be added or removed?

References

1. AWS EssentialsModule 6
2. AWS website: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling(opens in a new tab)
3. AWS website: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling FAQs(opens in a new tab)
4. AWS user guide: [Set capacity limits on your Auto Scaling group(opens in a new tab)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/asg-capacity-limits.html
5. AWS user guide: Step and simple scaling policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling(opens in a new tab)
6. AWS user guide: Target tracking scaling policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling(opens in a new tab)
7. AWS user guide: Create an Auto Scaling group using a launch template