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AWS Auto Scaling
Con gure automatic scaling for the AWS resources quickly through a scaling plan that uses
dynamic scaling and predictive scaling.
Optimize for availability, for cost, or a balance of both.
Scaling in means decreasing the size of a group while scaling out means increasing the size
of a group.
Useful for
Cyclical tra c such as high use of resources during regular business hours and low
use of resources overnight
On and o tra c patterns, such as batch processing, testing, or periodic analysis
Variable tra c patterns, such as software for marketing campaigns with periods of
spiky growth
It is a region speci c service. Currently, AWS Auto Scaling is only available in US East
(Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and Asia Paci c
(Singapore) public AWS regions.
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Features
Launch or terminate EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.
Launch or terminate instances from an EC2 Spot Fleet request, or automatically
replace instances that get interrupted for price or capacity reasons.
Adjust the ECS service desired count up or down in response to load variations.
Enable a DynamoDB table or a global secondary index to increase or decrease its
provisioned read and write capacity to handle increases in tra c without throttling.
Dynamically adjust the number of Aurora read replicas provisioned for an Aurora DB
cluster to handle changes in active connections or workload.
Use Dynamic Scaling to add and remove capacity for resources to maintain resource
utilization at the speci ed target value.
Use Predictive Scaling to forecast your future load demands by analyzing your
historical records for a metric. It also allows you to schedule scaling actions that
proactively add and remove resource capacity to re ect the load forecast, and control
maximum capacity behavior. Only available for EC2 Auto Scaling groups.
AWS Auto Scaling scans your environment and automatically discovers the scalable
cloud resources underlying your application, so you don’t have to manually identify
these resources one by one through individual service interfaces.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Ensuring you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle your
application load using Auto Scaling Groups.
An Auto Scaling group contains a collection of EC2 instances that share similar
characteristics and are treated as a logical grouping for the purposes of instance
scaling and management.
You specify the minimum, maximum and desired number of instances in each Auto
Scaling group.
Key Components
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Groups Your EC2 instances are organized into groups so that they are
treated as a logical unit for scaling and management. When
you create a group, you can specify its minimum, maximum,
and desired number of EC2 instances.
Your group uses a launch con guration as a template for its
EC2 instances. When you create a launch con guration, you
Launch con gurations
can specify information such as the AMI ID, instance type, key
pair, security groups, and block device mapping for your
instances.
Scaling options How to scale your Auto Scaling groups.
Auto Scaling Lifecycle
You can add a lifecycle hook to your Auto Scaling group to perform custom actions
when instances launch or terminate.
Scaling Options
Scale to maintain current instance levels at all times
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Manual Scaling
Scale based on a schedule
Scale based on a demand
Scaling Policy Types
Target tracking scaling—Increase or decrease the current capacity of the
group based on a target value for a speci c metric.
Step scaling—Increase or decrease the current capacity of the group based on
a set of scaling adjustments, known as step adjustments, that vary based on the
size of the alarm breach.
Simple scaling—Increase or decrease the current capacity of the group based
on a single scaling adjustment.
The cooldown period is a con gurable setting that helps ensure to not launch or
terminate additional instances before previous scaling activities take e ect.
EC2 Auto Scaling supports cooldown periods when using simple scaling policies,
but not when using target tracking policies, step scaling policies, or scheduled
scaling.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling marks an instance as unhealthy if the instance is in a state
other than running, the system status is impaired, or Elastic Load Balancing reports
that the instance failed the health checks.
Termination of Instances
When you con gure automatic scale in, you must decide which instances should
terminate rst and set up a termination policy. You can also use instance
protection to prevent speci c instances from being terminated during
automatic scale in.
Default Termination Policy
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Custom Termination Policies
OldestInstance – Terminate the oldest instance in the group.
NewestInstance – Terminate the newest instance in the group.
OldestLaunchCon guration – Terminate instances that have the oldest
launch con guration.
ClosestToNextInstanceHour – Terminate instances that are closest to the
next billing hour.
You can create launch templates that speci es instance con guration information when
you launch EC2 instances, and allows you to have multiple versions of a template.
A launch con guration is an instance con guration template that an Auto Scaling group
uses to launch EC2 instances, and you specify information for the instances.
You can specify your launch con guration with multiple Auto Scaling groups.
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You can only specify one launch con guration for an Auto Scaling group at a time,
and you can’t modify a launch con guration after you’ve created it.
When you create a VPC, by default its tenancy attribute is set to default. You can
launch instances with a tenancy value of dedicated so that they run as single-tenancy
instances. Otherwise, they run as shared-tenancy instances by default.
If you set the tenancy attribute of a VPC to dedicated, all instances launched in the VPC
run as single-tenancy instances.
When you create a launch con guration, the default value for the instance placement
tenancy is null and the instance tenancy is controlled by the tenancy attribute of the
VPC.
Launch Con guration
VPC Tenancy = default VPC Tenancy = dedicated
Tenancy
not speci ed shared-tenancy instance Dedicated Instance
default shared-tenancy instance Dedicated Instance
dedicated Dedicated Instance Dedicated Instance
If you are launching the instances in your Auto Scaling group in EC2-Classic, you can
link them to a VPC using ClassicLink.
Application Auto Scaling
Allows you to con gure automatic scaling for the following resources:
Amazon ECS services
Spot Fleet requests
Amazon EMR clusters
AppStream 2.0 eets
DynamoDB tables and global secondary indexes
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Aurora replicas
Amazon SageMaker endpoint variants
Custom resources provided by your own applications or services.
Features
Target tracking scaling—Scale a resource based on a target value for a speci c
CloudWatch metric.
Step scaling— Scale a resource based on a set of scaling adjustments that vary
based on the size of the alarm breach.
Scheduled scaling—Scale a resource based on the date and time.
Target tracking scaling
You can have multiple target tracking scaling policies for a scalable target,
provided that each of them uses a di erent metric.
You can also optionally disable the scale-in portion of a target tracking scaling
policy.
Step scaling
Increase or decrease the current capacity of a scalable target based on a set of
scaling adjustments, known as step adjustments, that vary based on the size of
the alarm breach.
Scheduled scaling
Scale your application in response to predictable load changes by creating
scheduled actions, which tell Application Auto Scaling to perform scaling activities
at speci c times.
The scale out cooldown period is the amount of time, in seconds, after a scale out
activity completes before another scale out activity can start.
The scale in cooldown period is the amount of time, in seconds, after a scale in activity
completes before another scale in activity can start.
You can attach one or more classic ELBs to your existing Auto Scaling Groups. The ELBs
must be in the same region.
Auto Scaling rebalances by launching new EC2 instances in the AZs that have fewer
instances rst, only then will it start terminating instances in AZs that had more instances
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Monitoring
Health checks – identi es any instances that are unhealthy
Amazon EC2 status checks (default)
Elastic Load Balancing health checks
Custom health checks.
Auto scaling does not perform health checks on instances in the standby state.
Standby state can be used for performing updates/changes/troubleshooting without
health checks being performed or replacement instances being launched.
CloudWatch metrics – enables you to retrieve statistics about Auto Scaling-published
data points as an ordered set of time-series data, known as metrics. You can use these
metrics to verify that your system is performing as expected.
CloudWatch Events – Auto Scaling can submit events to CloudWatch Events when
your Auto Scaling groups launch or terminate instances, or when a lifecycle action
occurs.
SNS noti cations – Auto Scaling can send Amazon SNS noti cations when your Auto
Scaling groups launch or terminate instances.
CloudTrail logs – enables you to keep track of the calls made to the Auto Scaling API
by or on behalf of your AWS account, and stores the information in log les in an S3
bucket that you specify.
Security
Use IAM to help secure your resources by controlling who can perform AWS Auto
Scaling actions.
By default, a brand new IAM user has NO permissions to do anything. To grant
permissions to call Auto Scaling actions, you attach an IAM policy to the IAM users or
groups that require the permissions it grants.
Limits
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Scaling plans: 100
Target tracking con gurations per instruction: 10
Target tracking con gurations per scaling plan: 500
Scalable targets: 500
Scaling policies per scalable target: 50
Scheduled actions per scalable target: 200
Step adjustments per scaling policy: 20
You can request a limit increase for all the limits mentioned above.
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