A social media company is running its flagship aws video

October 01, 2025  ·  PT1H46M27S  ·  EN

devops video for a social media company is running its flagship application via an Auto-Scaling group (ASG) which has 15 EC2 instances spanning across 3

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A social media company is running its flagship application via an Auto-Scaling group (ASG) which has 15 EC2 instances spanning across 3 Availability Zones (AZs). The current average CPU utilization of the group sits at 15% off-peak time. During peak time, it goes all the way to 45%, and these peak times happen predictably during business hours. The company has hired you as an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional to build a solution for this requirement. How can you improve the instance utilization while reducing cost and maintaining application availability?