How to launch EC2 Spot Instances using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and AWS Application Load Balancer (Part 2)?
Reading Time: 10 minutes A Spot Instance is a virtual machine that runs on spare EC2 capacity that is offered at a lower price than the On-Demand price. Spot Instances allow you to request unused EC2 instances at great discounts, allowing you to dramatically reduce your Amazon EC2 expenditures. A Spot Instance’s hourly pricing is known as a Spot […]
How to auto register and deregister EC2 Instances behind Application Load Balancer (ALB) using Lambda?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Consider that you’re running an eCommerce website that doesn’t have scaling capability in place, and also you’re much aware of the load such as when the load will increase and decrease. You also don’t want to assign a dedicated person to manually add or remove instances behind the load balancer and you want to ensure […]