AWS Auto Scaling

AWS Auto Scaling is a service that helps you automatically adjust the capacity of your Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS services, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and other AWS resources to maintain application performance and optimize costs. It allows users to define scaling plans that dynamically add…

Key facts

First appeared
2018
Category
technology
Problem solved
AWS Auto Scaling was created to address the significant challenges of manually scaling application infrastructure in response to unpredictable user demand, ensuring high availability and performance while optimizing operational costs. It solved the problem of developers and operations teams having to constantly monitor resource utilization and manually provision or de-provision servers, leading to either costly over-provisioning or performance-impacting under-provisioning.
Platforms
AWS Cloud

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Notable users

  • Airbnb
  • Capital One
  • Netflix
  • Any company leveraging AWS for scalable applications
  • Lyft