I would advise you to use LA based scaling with min and max LA set to
2 and 5.

On Jul 9, 7:15 am, kenvogt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could sure use some guidance on which method to use for scaling in
> three situations:
>
> 1) a web server, m1.small
> 2) an application server that does backend processing, c1.extra_large
> 3) a mysql database server, m1.extra_large
>
> The choices of course are:
> a) Enable scaling based on Time and day of week
> b) Enable scaling based on BandWidth usage
> c) Enable scaling based on LA (Load averages)
> d) Enable scaling based on SQS queue size
> e) Enable scaling based on RAM usage
>
> So here are my questions:
> a) We don't have any predictable time of day or time of week increase
> in activity, so I don't have a use for a).
> b) How do you judge what is "high" bandwidth usage?
> c) How do you judge what is "high" load averages?
> d) We don't use SQS at this time. Darn, I actually understand this
> one. ;-)
> e) How do you judge what is "high" RAM usage?
>
> Once I have an answer for b), c), and e), how do I choose which method
> to use for 1), 2), and 3)?
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