Chapter 17. Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch
This chapter covers
- Creating an auto-scaling group with launch configuration
- Using auto-scaling to change the number of virtual machines
- Scaling a synchronous decoupled app behind a load balancer (ALB)
- Scaling an asynchronous decoupled app using a queue (SQS)
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- How much will your guests eat and drink? Will it be a hot day, ...
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