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About Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove EC2 instances using scaling policies that you define. Dynamic or predictive scaling policies let you add or remove EC2 instance capacity to service established or real-time demand patterns. The fleet management features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling help maintain the health and availability of your fleet. Automation is vital to efficient DevOps, and getting your fleets of Amazon EC2 instances to launch, provision software, and self-heal automatically is a key challenge. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling provides essential features for each of these instance lifecycle automation steps. Use machine learning to predict and schedule the right number of EC2 instances to anticipate approaching traffic changes.
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