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AWS for System Administrators
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AWS for System Administrators

by Prashant Lakhera
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
6h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

In the previous chapter, you learned how to set up your application load balancer. This chapter will further extend that concept and see how to use a load balancer with an AWS Auto Scaling group.

AWS Auto Scaling is used to scale your application up or down based on demand. If the demand increases, then Auto Scaling will launch a new instance, and if the demand decreases, it will scale down or terminate instances.

This chapter will start by looking at Auto Scaling and how to set it up. We will further look at various Auto Scaling policies and which one to use under which circumstances. Then, we will look at how to scale your application based on demand using Auto Scaling. We ...

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ISBN: 9781800201538