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Scaling Amazon EC2 instances using ASG

Scaling Amazon EC2 instances using ASG

- [Instructor] Let's learn how to scale Amazon EC2 instances using an autoscaling group in AWS. Scaling our EC2 instances using an autoscaling group ensures that our application can handle varying loads by automatically adjusting the number of running instances based on the demand. For this guide, we'll first create a launch template that specifies the configuration information of the EC2 instance. Afterwards, we'll proceed in creating an auto-scaling group and finally configure the auto-scaling group with a simple scaling policy. Now let's create a launch template. Log into your AWS account to access the AWS Management Console. Go to the unified search bar on top and type EC2. Click EC2 on the results below. The screen that you see here is the Amazon EC2 dashboard. On the left hand panel are other menu links that we can use, such as EC2 global view, events, instances, instance types, launch templates, and so on. Enter instances, select launch templates and click Create Launch…

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