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Create an Auto Scaling group

Create an Auto Scaling group - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS: Automation and Optimization (2019)

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Create an Auto Scaling group

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- [Instructor] Now that we have the launch configuration ready, let's start configuring an auto scaling group. To do so, we'll scroll down the left navigation pane, and click on auto scaling groups. Click on create auto scaling group. The first step is to select a launch configuration or a launch template. Let's use the existing launch configuration called "MyLaunchConfig". Click on next step. Let's provide a name for the auto scaling group. I'm going to call this one as "myASG". Next, we need to provide the group size. This is also known as your desired capacity, meaning the number of Ec2 instances you would like to have running at any time. I'm going to input this as two. Next, select your VPC, and the subnet in which you'd like to launch your Ec2 instances. I'm going to select subnets across all availability zones, allowing me to take care of an availability zone failure. The message you see here depends on the setting configured in the launch configuration. In our case, we use the…

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