Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Getting Started

• AWS Management Console

  Step 1: Sign into the AWS Management Console

  Create an account and sign into the console. With Amazon EC2, you pay only for what you use. If you are a new AWS customer, you can get started with Amazon EC2 for free. For more information, see AWS Free Tier.

  Step 2: Create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group

  Using the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling wizard, create the launch configuration, specifying a name, AMI, instance type, and other details.
  

  Step 3: Configure your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group

  Specify a name, size, and network for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.
  

  Step 4: Add Elastic Load Balancers (Optional)

  When you set up Auto Scaling with Elastic Load Balancing, you can automatically distribute incoming application traffic across Amazon EC2 instances within your Auto Scaling groups to build highly available, fault-tolerant applications.

  Associate your load balancer with your Auto Scaling group to distribute traffic for your application across a fleet of EC2 instances that can scale with demand.

  You must first create a load balancer.
  

  Step 5: Configure Scaling Policies (Optional)

  Configure scaling policies for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.
  

• AWS Command Line Tools (CLI)

  You can access the features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling using the AWS CLI, which provides commands for a broad set of AWS products, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudWatch. For more information about the commands for Amazon EC2 uto Scaling, see the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling section of the AWS Command Line Interface Reference.

• AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)

  Get started with Amazon Auto Scaling by using APIs tailored to your programming language or platform, or AWS Mobile SDK to help you build high-quality mobile apps quickly and easily. See Tools for Amazon Web Services for more information.
  

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