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AWS Auto Scaling Primary Use Case

Ishaka Michael Efe - PeerSpot reviewer
Ishaka Michael Efe
DevOps Engineer Intern at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I use AWS Auto Scaling for websites to manage traffic coming into the website. I worked with the group that built this website, and my duty was to do the Auto Scaling to manage the traffic that was coming in.

To scale it, on the days that we have more traffic, we scale it up, and we scale it down when we have less traffic.

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Jay Sevak - PeerSpot reviewer
Jay Sevak
AWS Cloud at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

AWS Auto Scaling is used for managing traffic on EC2 instances. It is particularly utilized for scheduling the start and stop times of EC2 instances to fulfill client requirements, helping to handle peak traffic times and ensuring the developer server, which faces traffic issues in the morning and evening, functions smoothly.

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Mbula Mboma - PeerSpot reviewer
Mbula Mboma
AWS Cloud Re-Start Program Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

My primary use case for Auto Scaling is mainly to deploy applications at scale.

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Dhanasekaran V. - PeerSpot reviewer
Dhanasekaran V.
AWS Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution for scenarios where there is a sudden surge in user demand. For example, during major events on TV channels like Star Sports or National Geographic, the number of users can spike dramatically. Similarly, during year-end sales on platforms like Amazon, millions of people log in, causing a significant increase in server requests. 

Therefore, we rely on Auto Scaling to automatically manage these fluctuations by scaling the servers up when there is high demand and scaling down when the demand decreases.

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ChetanGoyal
AWS / Big Data Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

AWS Auto Scaling is a great service, and it is very helpful in the automatic scaling, upscaling, and downscaling of services.

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PRABHAT_MISHRA - PeerSpot reviewer
PRABHAT_MISHRA
Senior Devops Engineer at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use AWS Auto Scaling for the autoscaling feature. Since we cannot monitor the service all the time, we have an autoscaling feature enabled to detect a sudden load on the application. The application automatically scales based on the load metrics that we set.

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Wai L Lin O - PeerSpot reviewer
Wai L Lin O
Cloud Engineer - Supervisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We mostly integrate AWS Auto Scaling with CloudWatch monitoring and set a target CPU utilization for some devices. If our application CPU utilization is higher, we scale using the solution, which is very easy.

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Sumit Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Sumit Tiwari
Deputy General Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Auto Scaling is a feature available within AWS Compute services. If my workload runs mostly in the daytime and the usage is low at night, I keep five instances in the day and one or two at night. During Christmas or other festive seasons, when the load is much more, we can enable the tool to scale the number of instances based on the load automatically.

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SASWAT PRIYABRAT - PeerSpot reviewer
SASWAT PRIYABRAT
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use the product to distribute network traffic and ensure efficient scalability.

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DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN - PeerSpot reviewer
DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN
Senior Enterprise Architect at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

If we don't use Auto Scaling, then AWS will be much more expensive. It's part of the optimization.

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Shubham Chakraworty - PeerSpot reviewer
Shubham Chakraworty
Infrastructure Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use AWS Auto Scaling to define the number of instances depending on specific requirements.

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Alex Kabugo - PeerSpot reviewer
Alex Kabugo
System Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The good thing about Autoscaling is that it provides the capacity to minimize downtime. So, it gives you the assurance of stability and robustness within your system.

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Claudian Muma Tanwie
DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to scale instances vertically or horizontally based on what is going on in the environment. It involves increasing the size of CPU utilization. We can decide at what time our instance must be up and running. We can set in our environment that when a session reaches 70 or 80, the tool must add another instance. When it goes down to less than 30, it can reduce the instance, too. It helps us to reduce costs in an environment.

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Sudha Gorantla - PeerSpot reviewer
Sudha Gorantla
DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution to optimize and balance the availability and cost of AWS. It has scaling policies that can be set according to our preferences. We evaluate how much CPU a project requires and whether the resources are being underutilized. We can reduce the project timelines and balance the workloads.

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KartikMehta
DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We use AWS Auto Scaling for scaling purposes, particularly to manage costs and meet client requirements for scaling up resources at specific times. It helps us optimize expenses and handle increased traffic by automatically scaling instances when needed.

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Emmanuel Dibia - PeerSpot reviewer
Emmanuel Dibia
Cloud security engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We use AWS Auto Scaling to manage load for instances, including factors such as increased traffic. It helps us monitor and set up alerts and scaling policies to manage the memory usage for infrastructure.

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MinhTran2 - PeerSpot reviewer
MinhTran2
Technical Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We wanted a determined retail solution in Amazon. Over the course of using it, we have fifteen networks, and we're still using Kubernetes with our Amazon service. We have many specs for another environment. We can configure it easily in other environments using Amazon with Kubernetes scaling. 

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CloudEngineer213011 - PeerSpot reviewer
CloudEngineer213011
Cloud Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I, currently, have a large customer with more than 30 servers, which we provide APIs to their customers for online gaming. Their customers are divided into three regions, namely, Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world.

If the three default servers required for each region reaches 50% capacity, new servers are automatically launched and the traffic is divided among them.

We follow continuous integration or continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. When all servers are working correctly, we create new servers, configure them, delete the old servers, and the new servers are immediately deployed.

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RahulGandhi - PeerSpot reviewer
RahulGandhi
DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I used the tool during my internship for a client. 

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