Glossary term
What is Auto Scaling?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Auto Scaling" means: A feature that adds or removes servers automatically as demand changes. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Load balancer, CloudWatch, Content delivery network (CDN) and CloudTrail. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Auto Scaling?
A feature that adds or removes servers automatically as demand changes.
Where is Auto Scaling taught?
Auto Scaling is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover Auto Scaling?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 5.4: The path of a request: DNS, content delivery, load balancing and scaling
Which terms are related to Auto Scaling?
Next to Auto Scaling in the course glossaries: Load balancer, CloudWatch, Content delivery network (CDN), CloudTrail, DNS, Well-Architected Framework, Security group and Data transfer.
Load balancerCloudWatchContent delivery network (CDN)CloudTrailDNSWell-Architected FrameworkSecurity groupData transfer
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Auto Scaling?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.