With Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, you can automatically scale Amazon EC2 instances, either with scaling policies or with scheduled scaling. Auto Scaling groups are collections of Amazon EC2 instances that enable automatic scaling and fleet management features, such as scaling policies, scheduled actions, health checks, lifecycle hooks, and load balancing.
Application Auto Scaling provides automatic scaling of different resources beyond Amazon EC2, either with scaling policies or with scheduled scaling.
You can create and configure Auto Scaling groups, scaling policies, scheduled actions, and other auto scaling resources as part of your infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation templates. Templates make it easy to manage and automate the deployment of auto scaling resources in a repeatable and consistent manner.
The following example template snippets describe AWS CloudFormation resources or components for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and Application Auto Scaling. These snippets are designed to be integrated into a template and are not intended to be run independently.
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