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Scaling EC2 with auto-scaling groups

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Scaling EC2 with auto-scaling groups

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- [Instructor] Next let's look at scaling EC2 Instances. You want to consider using the most appropriate or best instance size, the amount of CPU, RAM, etc; type: whether it's compute optimized, memory optimized, GPU enabled or any of the other ever-growing, various options and cost: on-demand, spot or reserved. This might seem obvious but again in the most common mistakes that I see around AWS architectures it is very frequently when servers are being used around using too many or the wrong type or some combination of not-thoughtful implementation of EC2 which has resulted in some of my customers in having tens of thousands of dollars in wasted service fees, so I can not skip this. Now, that being said, once you cover the basics well then you can use sophisticated tools like the Auto Scaling tools to set event-based scaling for EC2. Now, I've included this graphic from Amazon's resources around the Auto Scaling lifecycle because I've found, in production, that it can be confusing…

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