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Auto Scaling Policies Deep Dive: Dynamic, Scheduled & Predictive
The specific scaling policy types and termination behaviors behind an Auto Scaling Group — manual, scheduled, dynamic, and predictive scaling, plus how ASG decides which instance to terminate when scaling in.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Distinguish manual, scheduled, dynamic, and predictive scaling and choose correctly for a given traffic pattern
- •Explain how predictive scaling differs from dynamic (target-tracking) scaling in terms of when it acts
- •Trace the default termination policy's logic when an Auto Scaling Group scales in
- •Explain why setting min=max=desired defeats the purpose of Auto Scaling
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