What's New

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Refined scaling policy

After you configured a refined scaling policy for an AS group, when a monitoring metric falls within the defined range, an alarm is generated, and AS automatically adjusts the number of instances in the AS group.

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Overview

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Connecting to RDS DB instances

Scaled instances in an AS group can be connected to RDS DB instances.

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AS and Other Services

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Multi-flavor AS configuration

You can select multiple flavors when creating an AS configuration. This helps you minimize instance addition failures due to unavailable flavors during peak hours.

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Notes on Multiple Flavors in an AS Configuration

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Changing the AZs of an enabled AS group

You can add, change, and delete the AZs of an AS group when the group is enabled, without interrupting your services.

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Modifying an AS Group

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Adjusting shared bandwidth

You can set a scheduled or periodic policy to adjust the size of a shared bandwidth.

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Bandwidth Scaling

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New Overview tab on the AS group details page

AS group information, such as the expected number of instances and ongoing scaling actions, is displayed in graphics, so that you can easily learn about the status of an AS group.

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Scaling Your Website Dynamically

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Standby instance

You can set one or more instances in your AS group to work in standby mode, and stop or restart these instances without removing them from the AS group.

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Putting an Instance Into the Standby State

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Multi-AZ extension policy

The multi-AZ expansion policy provides you with a diversified AZ configuration option.

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Creating an AS Group

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Spot pricing

Spot pricing enables you to use ECSs at a lower price, reducing your costs.

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Billing

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New section for regions and AZs

A section about regions and AZs was added to the Auto Scaling Service Overview to help you easily obtain related information.

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Region and AZ

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Optimization of best practices

Optimized best practices provides you with more comprehensive scenarios and clearer steps.

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Setting Up an Automatically Scalable Discuz! Forum

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Interconnection with Dedicated Host (DeH)

AS is able to automatically create instances on your DeHs to meet your requirements for high computing performance and data security.

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Creating an AS Configuration from a New Specifications Template

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Using existing alarm rules

Scaling actions can be performed based on your existing customized alarm rules to meet your scaling requirements in special scenarios.

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Setting Monitoring Alarm Rules

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Bandwidth scaling

You can create a bandwidth scaling policy to automatically adjust your bandwidth resources.

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Creating a Bandwidth Scaling Policy

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Disk monitoring metrics

Scaling actions can be triggered based on the disk read rate, disk write rate, disk read requests, or disk write requests.

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Monitoring Metrics

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Instance protection

You can configure instance protection for one or more functional instances that you want to protect from being automatically removed from an AS group during scale-in actions.

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Configuring Instance Protection

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Interconnection with Tag Management Service (TMS)

You can tag AS groups for easier resource management.

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Adding Tags to AS Groups and Instances

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Lifecycle hook

Lifecycle hooks enable you to flexibly manage the lifecycle of instances in AS groups.

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Managing Lifecycle Hooks

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Notification

With the notification function, AS promptly notifies you of AS group information, such as successful instance increasing, failed instance increasing, successful instance decreasing, failed instance decreasing, or AS group exception.

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Configuring Notifications for an AS Group

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Binding multiple load balancers to an AS group

You can bind multiple load balancers to an AS group. Then the load balancers distribute application traffic to all instances in the AS group, improving the fault tolerance of applications.

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AS Advantages

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Binding an EIP to an automatically scaled instance

AS binds an EIP to an instance that is automatically added to an AS group. In this way, you do not need to configure an EIP for the instance manually.

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Creating an AS Configuration

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Rollout of AS

AS is newly launched. AS allows you to automatically adjust resources to keep up with changes in demand based on pre-configured AS policies. It frees you from the cumbersome task of repeatedly, manually adjusting resources to respond to changes while helping you improve resource usage and reduce resource costs.

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What Is Auto Scaling?