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Simple scaling

Simple scaling - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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

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Simple scaling

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- [Narrator] A Simple scaling policy allows you to increase or decrease current capacity based on a single scaling adjustment. Let's now see how to configure a simple scaling policy. With the Auto Scaling group selected, click on the Scaling Policies tab. Click on Add policy, and then click on Create simple scaling policy. You'll first provide a name, let's call it as Scale Out. Next, we need a cloud watch alarm that executes this policy. Since we do not have one, let's click on Create new alarm. You may choose to send a notification each time the alarm gets fired. For now, I'll uncheck the box to send notifications. There are multiple metrics available, such as Average, Minimum, Maximum, Sum and SampleCount, and multiple data points available such as CPU Utilization, Disk Reads and Disc Writes, Network In and Network Out. Let's select whenever the Average of CPU Utilization is greater than or equal to 80% for at least one consecutive period of five minutes. Let's provide a name for…

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