Auto Scaling in AWS

Why is the need of Auto Scaling?

When there is huge traffic, network load balancer suits best for high performance.

The running server can be upscaled/upgraded, scaled up or down based on the demand.

Classic load balancer gives both option https/s and tcp (application and network) level balancer    

What are the types of AutoScaling?

Vertical Scaling:

Capacity can be resized by adding more CPU and Storage and memory when needed. The only thing to be noted here is it is done with the image or the instance should be stopped. So in order to have outage less scaling the instances must be under ELB to have other instances serving the traffic.With this there will not be any outage/downtime going to happen.

-Autoscaling is achieved by changing instance type when  the server is stopped.

-Server cannot be resized when it is up and running

Horizontal Scaling:

Web1, Web2, Web3 etc. More and more servers can be added based on the needs.

Policies

- Fixed (fixed number of servers), 
- Manual: change the number of instances manually
-Automatic/Dynamic: Some condition specified.
- Scheduled: 

Do we use network load balancer (ELB), when there is a very high traffic?

Outage and downtime, scaling up/scaling down, upgrading.

 Users will not be able to know how many servers they are connected to when they are connecting through load balancer.

How the Auto Scaling is being achieved?

Two steps process

-Configure Auto scaling Config

-Create Auto Scaling group

Manual:

We can change the number of instances required to be running

Dynamic Scaling:

Scaling policy: scaling out/back : Add scaling policy.

If CPU utilisation goes beyond 60% one more server can be added to ket utilisation goes down.

Min servers

Max servers

When cpu utilisation exceeds:A new server would be spinning up

Scheduled:

When We can forecast high load, (black Friday, quarterly result,  ) we can predict more load and we autoscaling can be scheduled.

Specify start time, end time, Recurrence, Min and max number of servers

Sample application to Simulate Auto Scaling:

Open ssh terminal

Login: Ec2-user

sudo su

yum install stress -y

stress -c 4

top //Show cpu utilisation process wise