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13. AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
What an AWS Auto Scaling Group is and its role in maintaining desired capacity and HA.
AWS / Infrastructure as Code
AWS Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
An Auto Scaling Group automatically ensures a fleet of EC2 instances matches a desired count and health level for capacity and availability.
"I want my service to keep running at the right size even when instances fail or traffic spikes."
An ASG is a logical group that maintains a target number of EC2 instances by launching or terminating instances according to a desired capacity, health checks, and scaling policies.
"I want my service to keep running at the right size even when instances fail or traffic spikes."
An ASG is a logical group that maintains a target number of EC2 instances by launching or terminating instances according to a desired capacity, health checks, and scaling policies.