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Auto Scaling

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps manage the number of EC2 instances for applications by creating Auto Scaling groups with defined minimum, maximum, and desired capacities. It features automatic health monitoring, custom health checks, load balancing, and the ability to use multiple instance types to optimize costs. There are no additional fees for using Auto Scaling; users only pay for the AWS resources utilized.

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Auto Scaling

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps manage the number of EC2 instances for applications by creating Auto Scaling groups with defined minimum, maximum, and desired capacities. It features automatic health monitoring, custom health checks, load balancing, and the ability to use multiple instance types to optimize costs. There are no additional fees for using Auto Scaling; users only pay for the AWS resources utilized.

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Auto Scaling

Amazon Web Services


Traditional Vs Autoscaling Group
Auto Scaling
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number
of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.
• You create collections of EC2 instances, called Auto Scaling groups. You can
specify the minimum number of instances in each Auto Scaling group, and
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures that your group never goes below this size.
• You can specify the maximum number of instances in each Auto Scaling
group, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures that your group never goes
above this size.
• If you specify the desired capacity, either when you create the group or at any
time thereafter, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures that your group has this
many instances. If you specify scaling policies, then Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
can launch or terminate instances as demand on your application increases or
decreases.
• For example, the following Auto Scaling group has a minimum size of
four instances, a desired capacity of six instances, and a maximum
size of twelve instances. The scaling policies that you define adjust the
number of instances, within your minimum and maximum number of
instances, based on the criteria that you specify
Features of Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling
• With Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, your EC2 instances are organized into Auto
Scaling groups so that they can be treated as a logical unit for the purposes of
scaling and management. Auto Scaling groups use launch templates (or
launch configurations) as configuration templates for their EC2 instances.

• The following are key features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling:

Monitoring the health of running instances


• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling automatically monitors the health and availability of
your instances using EC2 health checks and replaces terminated or impaired
instances to maintain your desired capacity.
Features of Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling
• Custom health checks
• In addition to the built-in health checks, you can define custom health
checks that are specific to your application to verify that it's responding as
expected. If an instance fails your custom health check, it's automatically
replaced to maintain your desired capacity.

• Balancing capacity across Availability Zones


• You can specify multiple Availability Zones for your Auto Scaling group, and
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling balances your instances evenly across the
Availability Zones as the group scales. This provides high availability and
resiliency by protecting your applications from failures in a single location.
Features of Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling
• Multiple instance types and purchase options
• Within a single Auto Scaling group, you can launch multiple instance types and
purchase options (Spot and On-Demand Instances), allowing you to optimize costs
through Spot Instance usage. You can also take advantage of Reserved Instance
and Savings Plan discounts by using them in conjunction with On-Demand
Instances in the group.

• Automated replacement of Spot Instances


• If your group includes Spot Instances, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can automatically
request replacement Spot capacity if your Spot Instances are interrupted. Through
Capacity Rebalancing, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can also monitor and proactively
replace your Spot Instances that are at an elevated risk of interruption.
Features of Amazon EC2 Auto
Scaling
• Load balancing
You can use Elastic Load Balancing load balancing and health checks to ensure an
even distribution of application traffic to your healthy instances. Whenever
instances are launched or terminated, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling automatically
registers and deregisters the instances from the load balancer.

• Scalability
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling also provides several ways for you to scale your Auto
Scaling groups. Using auto scaling allows you to maintain application availability
and reduce costs by adding capacity to handle peak loads and removing capacity
when demand is lower. You can also manually adjust the size of your Auto Scaling
group as needed.
Pricing for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

• There are no additional fees with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, so it's
easy to try it out and see how it can benefit your AWS architecture.
You only pay for the AWS resources (for example, EC2 instances, EBS
volumes, and CloudWatch alarms) that you use

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