In the field of cloud computing, flawless application scaling is not just desirable but necessary. AWS Auto Scaling and Load Balancing are the dynamic duo that make cloud-based systems more […] ...

A launch template simply instructs AWS on how to create new VMs within the auto scaling group. For example, this template would specify the AMI to be used, your preferred key pair, the instance type ...

AWS recently released Warm Pools for EC2 Auto Scaling, which reduces the time and cost to scale out (aka horizontal scaling) applications by maintaining a pool of pre-initialized instances.

Amazon EC2 was launched in 2006, while Auto Scaling was launched in 2009, along with CloudWatch Metrics and Elastic Load Balancing.

It builds on Amazon’s existing scaling features and will run on any desired EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Spot Fleets, ECS tasks, DynamoDB tables, DynamoDB Global Secondary Indexes, and Aurora ...

Auto Scaling cloud resources is nothing new in AWS. However, Amazon recently announced a new Target Tracking policy that gives customers more granular control over how their application scales ...

Instead, you simply point AWS Auto Scaling at your application and select the services and resources of interest.

Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services ...