While manual scaling can be fine for less demanding websites and systems (as they do not require quick actions when something happens), when your application is, for example, a popular e-commerce shop, you want things to happen quickly, including scaling out. Let us try to enable autoscaling for now—it will display a form that enables you to manage these settings:
In fact, you have two options here:
- Scale based on a metric: Allows you to select a metric, which will be a trigger for autoscaling
- Scale to a specific instance count: Executed by default (so should be used along with scaling based on a metric)
To configure scale based ...
