intermediate~2.5h

Auto Scaling & Elastic Load Balancing

Automatically matching EC2 capacity to real demand, and distributing traffic across that capacity so no single instance is a bottleneck or a single point of failure.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain the relationship between a Launch Template, an Auto Scaling Group, and a Load Balancer
  • Choose between ALB, NLB, and GWLB for a given use case
  • Configure a target-tracking Auto Scaling policy
  • Explain how health checks let an Auto Scaling Group self-heal

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Related concepts

ec2-fundamentalsec2-security-networkingaws-well-architected-framework

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