Skill
Design for EC2 Automated Scaling
December 2019 with Bart Castle
- Intermediate
- 7 videos
- 35 mins
Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design, implement, and test Auto Scaling groups and scaling policies.
Learn how to set the AMI, instance type, and user data by using a launch configuration; how to externally control the size of Auto Scaling groups by using desired capacity parameters; and how to use CloudWatch to create an Auto Scaling policy that will control the timing of scale-in and scale-out events of scaling group. Gain an understanding of launch configurations and Elastic Beanstalk.
Learn how to set the AMI, instance type, and user data by using a launch configuration; how to externally control the size of Auto Scaling groups by using desired capacity parameters; and how to use CloudWatch to create an Auto Scaling policy that will control the timing of scale-in and scale-out events of scaling group. Gain an understanding of launch configurations and Elastic Beanstalk.
Recommended ExperienceAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified Developer - Associate Related Job Functions
- A basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is recommended, but not required.
- Six months of experience using the AWS Cloud is recommended, but not required.
- PC, MAC, or Linux system with Internet access
- Free tier (or higher) account with AWS
- IT Professional
- System administrator
- Network administrator
- System engineer
- Network engineer

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