AWS Auto Scaling is a feature whereby, depending on predefined criteria such as traffic load, CPU usage, or custom measurements, the number of EC2 instances in a scalable group is automatically ...

AWS recently released Warm Pools for EC2 Auto Scaling, which reduces the time and cost to scale out (aka horizontal scaling) applications by maintaining a pool of pre-initialized instances.

AWS Auto Scaling then takes care of the rest, increasing the capacity of constrained resources during demand spikes to ensure the application delivers the expected performance.

AWS Auto Scaling integrates with Elastic Load Balancing, EC2 Auto Scaling, and the Amazon CloudWatch monitoring service. It also offers master control of auto-scaling functionality for services ...

As you set up a given scaling threshold, AWS Auto Scaling actually can create a set of scaling policies automatically, based on your configuration. Screenshot: Amazon ...

Scalr is a recently open-sourced framework for managing the massive serving power of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service. While web services ...