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Practical AWS Networking

You're reading from   Practical AWS Networking Build and manage complex networks using services such as Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect, and Amazon Route 53

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788398299
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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An overview of Auto Scaling

There is a possibility that you may need to adjust the number of resources serving the application, so application load can be managed without any issues. Manual configuration of increasing and decreasing resources based on load application is not only facing difficulties but also hardly serves the purpose effectively.

It is better to scale in and scale out automatically, so whenever peak load is countered on the application, then additional resources are allocated automatically and whenever the load is normal, additional resources can be deallocated.

There are some visible benefits of Auto Scaling:

In short, Auto Scaling feature in AWS provides us flexibility to manage application traffic in a cost-effective manner. We can achieve this by configuring the minimum number of instances in each Auto Scaling group. This minimum number of instances...

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