AWS Auto-Scaling procedure

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Just a few steps in order to autoscale your application...

In this example an autoscaling policy was created for www.altaconfidelidad.com "alta"

Current infrastructure for alta contains:
1 micro ec2 instance
1 load balancer
1 EBS volume attached for persistant storage

Requirements:
Amazon EC2 cli tools
Amazon AS cli tools

Step 1.  Launch Config

as-create-launch-config <launch-config-name> --image-id <snap-ami-id> --instance-type m1.large --block-device-mapping '/dev/sdf=<snap-vol-id>:true' --region us-east-1 --group <sec-group>

Step 2. Autoscale Group

as-create-auto-scaling-group <group-name> --launch-configuration <launch-config-name> --availability-zones us-east-1b --min-size 0 --max-size 2 --load-balancers <loadbalancer-name> --region us-east-1

Step 3. Scaling Policies

as-put-scaling-policy <policy-name-up> --auto-scaling-group <group-name> --adjustment=1 --type ChangeInCapacity --cooldown 300 --region us-east-1

as-put-scaling-policy <policy-name-down> --auto-scaling-group <group-name> --adjustment=-1 --type ChangeInCapacity --cooldown 300 --region us-east-1