Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. You can use fleet management features to maintain the health and availability of your fleet, and use dynamic and predictive scaling to add or remove EC2 instances to meet demand.
APIs
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API
The Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API provides programmatic access to create and manage Auto Scaling groups, launch configurations, scaling policies, scheduled actions, lifecycle hook...
Capabilities
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Auto Scaling Group Management
Unified capability for managing EC2 Auto Scaling groups, scaling policies, and lifecycle hooks for cloud operations engineers.
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Automatically scales EC2 capacity up or down in response to real-time demand using target tracking, step, or simple scaling policies.
Uses machine learning to forecast future demand and proactively adds EC2 instances ahead of anticipated load spikes.
Scales capacity at pre-defined times based on predictable load patterns or business cycles.
Automatically detects and replaces unhealthy instances to maintain application availability and fleet health.
Gradually updates EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group with new AMIs or launch template versions.
Pre-initializes EC2 instances to reduce latency for scale-out events by keeping a pool of instances in a stopped or running state.
Combines On-Demand and Spot instances with multiple instance types for cost optimization and availability.
Pauses instance launch or termination to perform custom actions such as installing software or draining connections.
Use Cases
Automatically scale web server fleets to handle variable HTTP traffic loads without over-provisioning.
Scale compute capacity up when jobs arrive and down when completed to minimize costs for batch workloads.
Independently scale each microservice based on its own traffic patterns and resource utilization.
Combine Spot and On-Demand instances to reduce EC2 costs while maintaining availability.
Use instance refresh to gradually replace old instances with new ones for zero-downtime deployments.
Integrations
Launches and terminates EC2 instances based on scaling policies and schedules.
Uses CloudWatch metrics and alarms to trigger dynamic scaling policies automatically.
Automatically registers new instances with load balancers and deregisters terminated instances.
Integrates with Systems Manager for instance configuration and patch management during lifecycle hooks.
Sends notifications for scaling events, instance launches, and terminations via SNS topics.
Works with Cost Explorer and Budgets to monitor and optimize spend on Auto Scaling fleets.