Autoscaling Groups, Launch Configurations

Question 1

Launch Configuration

Answer 1

Used to create autoscaling instances

Like going through the config to setup a new instance

Question 2

Process of setting up Autoscaling Group

Answer 2

Setup ELB

Setup Launch Config

Setup Autoscaling Group
specify subnets (AZ's)
specify ELB
specify healthcheck
specify scaling policy (when to execute policy, action to take, instances needed) for increasing and decreasing group size.  (cpu utilization, number of instances, etc)