For SaaS
Growing SaaS traffic
Scale your application servers up and down with daily usage swings, and stop paying for idle capacity.
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Platform
Auto-Scale adds or removes servers automatically as your traffic changes. You set the minimum, desired and maximum capacity, and extra resources are billed only for the hours you need them.
Architecture
An Auto Scaling Group keeps the server count between the minimum, desired and maximum capacity you define. Paired with the load balancer, traffic flows to new servers automatically.
Capabilities
Resources grow as traffic rises and shrink as it falls, keeping the system up even under sudden spikes.
Set minimum, desired and maximum capacity to keep both performance and cost under control.
Traffic reaches newly added servers automatically through the built-in load balancer.
Define scaling with Terraform and be ready for both planned and unplanned load increases.
Extra servers are billed hourly, and you stop paying for them once load drops and they are removed.
Use cases
For SaaS
Scale your application servers up and down with daily usage swings, and stop paying for idle capacity.
Handle sudden traffic surges during e-commerce campaigns and product launches without losing service quality.
Match capacity to demand automatically on platforms where player and viewer numbers change quickly.
No extra charge
Auto-Scale carries no extra charge. You pay only for the servers it launches and the other resources you use, for the hours they run.
No. Auto-Scale is a platform feature; you pay hourly only for the servers it launches and the resources you use.
You define minimum, desired and maximum capacity for the Auto Scaling Group, and the server count changes automatically within those limits.
For applications that scale out, pairing Auto-Scale with the built-in load balancer is recommended so traffic reaches new servers.
Yes. You can define your scaling setup as code with Terraform and apply it automatically together with the load balancer.
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