Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is an AWS service that automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group to maintain application availability. It allows users to define conditions and policies to scale capacity up or down dynamically in response to demand, ensuring…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2009
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling was created to solve the significant operational challenge of manually managing compute capacity for applications with fluctuating demand. Before its introduction, organizations struggled with either over-provisioning servers, leading to wasted resources and high costs, or under-provisioning, resulting in performance degradation, outages, and lost business during traffic spikes. The manual process was reactive, slow, and prone to human error, making it incredibly difficult to maintain both cost efficiency and application availability simultaneously.
- Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Airbnb
- Capital One
- Expedia
- Netflix
- Adobe
- Epic Games