Create production-ready Auto Scaling infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation templates. This skill covers Auto Scaling Groups for EC2, ECS, and Lambda, launch configurations, launch templates, scaling policies, lifecycle hooks, and best practices for high availability and cost optimization.
Follow these steps to create Auto Scaling infrastructure with CloudFormation:
Stack Policies prevent unintentional updates to critical stack resources. Use them to protect Auto Scaling Groups from accidental modifications or deletions.
Provides AWS CloudFormation patterns for Auto Scaling including EC2, ECS, and Lambda. Use when creating Auto Scaling groups, launch configurations, launch templates, scaling policies, lifecycle hooks, and predictive scaling. Covers template structure with Parameters, Outputs, Mappings, Conditions, cross-stack references, and best practices for high availability and cost optimization. Source: giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit.