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It is relatively common for workloads to require more hardware resources than what a single EC2 instance can provide. In these types of situations, organizations often create scaling groups. A scaling ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. AWS Auto Scaling is a service that automatically adjusts the number of compute resources in your ...

AWS partners have long enjoyed the ability to set resources to scale automatically with the demand on customer workloads. A new feature from the cloud leader is the first to enable them to automate ...

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Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services have been using EC2 for increased capacity since ...

A retail analytics startup runs a three-tier web application with ten front-end Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group placed in a single Availability Zone behind an Application Load Balancer.

One of the primary advantages of cloud computing has always been the ability to scale up to meet short-term needs and scale back when that need has been met. In other words, you don’t have to pay for ...