Amazon EC2 Auto-Scaling Concepts

External

• Auto-scaling User Guide http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/

Internal

• Amazon EC2 Concepts

Overview

Auto-scaling is an Amazon EC2 functionality that insures that an optimal number of EC2 instances are started and maintained running, to handle the load of a specific application. The EC2 instances whose number is controlled this way are part of an auto-scaling group.