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Testing the Auto Scaling

Testing the Auto Scaling - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Testing the Auto Scaling

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- [Intructor] So one other thing that I'd like to do is to test whether or not this auto scaling that we've set up is actually working. The auto scaling was configured to keep the server capacity at two at a minimum, and six at a maximum with a target CPU utilization of 50%. So if one of these two servers were to become unhealthy, thereby dropping the healthy server count to just one, which is below the minimum threshold set. I expect the auto scaling service to automatically create a new one to replace the unhealthy one, and get back to the minimum desired capacity of two servers. So to test this out. I'm going to force one of these to go down manually by terminating it and see what happens. So here from the console, I'm going to go back into the EC2 service. I'm going to go to our two instances that are running, these are the two that have been created for the auto scaling. As we can see here, we still have our one…

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