AWS Auto Scaling
Add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in demand
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to dynamically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down automatically according to conditions you define.
You can use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for fleet management of EC2 instances to help maintain the health and availability of your fleet and ensure that you are running your desired number of Amazon EC2 instances.
You can also use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for dynamic scaling of EC2 instances in order to automatically increase the number of Amazon EC2 instances during demand spikes to maintain performance and decrease capacity during lulls to reduce costs.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is well suited both to applications that have stable demand patterns or that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variability in usage.
Benefits
Improve Fault Tolerance
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can detect when an instance is unhealthy, terminate it, and replace it with a new one.
Increase Application Availability
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures that your application always has the right amount of compute capacity.
Lower Costs
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds new instances only when necessary, and terminates them when no longer needed.
Employees
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Cody Swann
CEO
Since founding Gunner Technology, Cody has served the company in every aspect of business development and product development.
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Dary Merckens
CTO
From a contractor to a partner, Dary has been with Gunner since year 1 and embodies the meritocratic spirit and philosophy of Gunner Technology.
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Skyla Frye
Developer III
Skyla is Gunner's go-to engineer when it comes to evaluating new tech. She loves evaluating bleeding edge software and teaching her colleagues what she learns.
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Kayden Chan
Developer II
Kayden holds the Gunner Technology record for most straight hours worked at just under 70. He refuses to quit until the job is done and it's done right.
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Ethan Sloan
DevOps Engineer II
Ethan has a mind for infrastructure and a knack for visualizing platform solutions
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Nicolas Henderson
DevOps Engineer I
Nicolas' goal is to learn everything. A voracious reader, the only time his nose isn't in a tech book is when he's scripting a new infrastructure.
Projects
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References
Related Terms
- Self-healing
A system that can detect that it's not operating property and fix itself without human intervention.
- Reliability
The degree to which a component consistently performs according to its specifications.
- Availability
The ability of a system or component to be operational and accessible if required (system uptime).