Understanding autoscaling
Autoscaling is an approach to automatically scale out instances based on the resource usage to meet agreed SLAs by replicating the services to be scaled.
The system automatically detects an increase in traffic, spins up additional instances, and makes them available for traffic handling. Similarly, when the traffic volumes go down, the system automatically detects and reduces the number of instances by taking active instances back from the service. It is also required to ensure that there is a set number of instances always up and running. In addition to this, the physical or virtual machines also need a mechanism to automatically provision machines. The latter part is much more easy to handle using APIs provided ...
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