Simple scaling

- [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. …