AWS Autoscaling – Build Self Initializing Instances with a User Data Hook

Autoscaling takes charge of creating and destroying the instances that provide a particular application service. These instances make up an Autoscaling Group (ASG).

We must tell the Autoscaling Group what type of image we wish to have deployed, how large will that image be and other configuration information.  These instructions are provided in a AWS Launch Configuration which is used by the ASG.

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