Overview

Auto Scaling automatically adjusts computing resources based on your business cycle. Auto Scaling is a service to automatically adjust computing resources based on your volume of user requests. When the demand for computing resources increase, Auto Scaling automatically adds ECS instances to serve additional user requests, or alternatively removes instances in the case of decreased user requests.

Benefits

Flexible

Intelligent scheduling to support various scenarios. Automatically adjusts computing resources according to various scaling policies. Supports manual scale-in and scale-out, which offer you flexibility to control resources manually.

Automatic

Automatic monitoring of health status. Automatically create or release ECS resources after scaling policy is triggered. Automatically configures load balancer and RDS whitelist.

Elastic Scale-Out and Scale-In

During peak periods, automatically adds additional computing resource to the pool When user requests decrease, Auto Scaling automatically releases ECS resources to cut down your costs

Elastic Self-Health

When an unhealthy instance has been detected, the auto-scaling service automatically replaces the instance with a new one to ensure uninterrupted service

Features

Auto Scaling

Automatically increase or decrease ECS instances according to customers’ business needs.

Support Server Load Balancer Configuration

When adding or releasing ECS instances, the service automatically attaches or detaches the instances to the Server Load Balancer.

Support RDS Whitelist

When adding ECS instances, the service automatically adds instance IPs to the whitelist of RDS instances. Likewise, when releasing ECS instances the service automatically delists instance IPs from the whitelist.