Site falls over at peak or we pay for idle overnight
Auto-scaling adjusts instance count to load. Only works if your app is stateless.
Try this first
- 1Define min, max, desired and a metric like CPU or request-count
- 2Actually test scale-out, not just on paper
- 3Plan scale-in carefully, abrupt removal hurts cache hits and breaks long requests
- 4Use launch templates with one AMI/image plus bootstrap
When to bring us in
Stateful apps (sessions, local files) need to go stateless first via Redis, S3 or DB.
See also
- Everyone logs in with the AWS root accountRoot is for emergencies and billing. Day-to-day work belongs in IAM users or SSO.
- Every developer has AdministratorAccessAdministratorAccess everywhere is convenient now, painful later. Start with role-based policies.
- Everyone has individual IAM users with their own passwordIdentity Center (formerly AWS SSO) links to your IdP and issues temporary credentials per session.
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