Cloud Basics: Auto-Scaling Servers

Cloud Basics: Auto-Scaling Servers

Tutorial on automatically scaling servers based on load in AWS

One of the benefits of cloud is to not have to precisely predict and provision resources ahead of time for workload in production. In an on-premises model, you will need to over-provision the hardware resources by either scaling vertically (increase existing server’s cpu, memory, etc.) or horizontally (add more equivalently resourced servers) to try to meet the anticipated peak workload. …

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