Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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What job does it solve?

Replaceable EC2 instances must scale or recover automatically.

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Where does it stop?

The capacity is not EC2, or scaling the instance count would not relieve the real bottleneck.

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Closely related services

• Amazon EC2Resizable virtual machines in AWS with control over the operating system, instance type, storage, and networking.
• Elastic Load BalancingDistributes incoming traffic across healthy targets using application, network, or gateway load balancer types.

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Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 02Scale the work without losing the state
• Lesson 25Remove one Availability Zone—what still works?

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