Practice Automatic Scaling (3.4.2.1) - Chapter 3: Deep Dive into Compute Services

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Question 1.
What is Auto Scaling?
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Think about adapting resources to user traffic.
Question 2.
What does Elastic Load Balancing do?
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Consider how traffic is managed across several instances.
3Question 3.
What triggers Auto Scaling to add instances?
- CloudWatch alarms
- User manual input
- Monthly schedule
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Focus on the monitoring components of AWS.
4Question 4.
True or False: ELB only works with HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
- True
- False
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Think about the types of load balancing.
Question 5.
If a shopping website anticipates heavy traffic during a holiday sale, describe a plan for implementing Auto Scaling and how you would set up CloudWatch alarms.
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Consider historical data to define your traffic expectations.
Question 6.
Analyze a scenario where Auto Scaling might fail to work as intended and suggest mitigation strategies.
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Reflect on potential limitations of reactive scaling.

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