3.4.2.1 - Automatic Scaling
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Practice Questions
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What is Auto Scaling?
💡 Hint: Think about adapting resources to user traffic.
What does Elastic Load Balancing do?
💡 Hint: Consider how traffic is managed across several instances.
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What triggers Auto Scaling to add instances?
💡 Hint: Focus on the monitoring components of AWS.
True or False: ELB only works with HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
💡 Hint: Think about the types of load balancing.
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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.
💡 Hint: Consider historical data to define your traffic expectations.
Analyze a scenario where Auto Scaling might fail to work as intended and suggest mitigation strategies.
💡 Hint: Reflect on potential limitations of reactive scaling.
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