May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
10h 14m
English
A key benefit of cloud computing is the ability to consume what is needed when it is needed. Autoscaling describes the ability to scale horizontally (that is, shrink or grow the number of running server instances) as application user demand changes over time. Autoscaling is often utilized within web/app tiers within the baseline architectures mentioned. In the following figure, an additional server is dynamically added based on demand and threshold settings.
Load balancers must be preconfigured or configured dynamically to handle the new servers that are added.

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