Auto Scaling Developer Guide

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Auto Scaling.

This guide shows you how to use the Auto Scaling web service to create new web applications or integrate with existing ones. You can use Auto Scaling to automatically launch or terminate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances based on user-defined policies, health status checks, and schedules. This guide explains how to integrate Auto Scaling with other AWS products, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon Simple Notification Service, and Amazon CloudWatch.