Creating launch configuration

In order to understand the Auto Scaling concept better, let's make use of the same foundational architecture that we used in an earlier chapter. But, instead of load balancer sending traffic to the EC2 instance directly, we will make use of the Auto Scaling Group. To find out all the cmdlets related to Auto Scaling, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> Get-Command *-AS*

To see the limits of Auto Scaling components in the given account, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> Get-ASAccountLimit

The output indicates that the maximum number of Auto Scaling Groups that can be created in the region is 20, and you can create 100 launch configurations at the most. If you want to change the limit, you have to ask AWS to increase it. To create an Auto Scaling Group, first, we need to create the template called launch configuration. To...