One of the biggest advantages to cloud computing is the ability to quickly react to an unknown system load. A well-known pattern within AWS is to make use of the Auto Scaling feature and adjust total computing capacity accordingly. That sounds great, but how do you go from this concept to an actual, working application? How do you deploy changes? Most important of all, how do you automate this process once you understand the architecture?
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I got my first real exposure to cloud architecture a couple years ago. I was a contractor and the client wanted to track usage of Amazon Web Services(AWS) across different internal teams for financial reasons. They also realized the potential for automating infrastructure using the AWS API and wanted us to explore the numerous options while working with system administrators to define behavior. It was here that I got first-hand experience on how the cloud computing model enabled building and scaling systems where capacity is largely unknown.
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