Dynamic Scaling Made Simple: SQS Integration with Cloud Watch, SNS, and Autoscaling Group

Autoscaling is a core concept in AWS that allows you to scale EC2 instances up and down based on specific metrics and certain conditions. Creating an autoscale group with auto-scaling enabled is one of the simplest ways to achieve autoscaling. But what if you want more control over your auto-scale groups? What if you want to add some logic around when particular service failures trigger an increase in your automatic scaling usage?

In this blog, you will integrate Simple Queue Service with Cloud watch alarm to trigger an Autoscaling group to handle the load of your application. The scenario is like you are having an Application that triggers the SQS queue as soon as the load on the application becomes heavy, and as soon as the threshold for the number of messages displayed on the SQS increases by a certain number, It triggers the Cloud Watch Alarm to scale up the load and creates an instance and when the load becomes less or stable it triggers the cloud watch alarm to scale in the application based on the SQS display message.

This scenario is one of the best examples of how we can autoscale based on some real use cases. In this Blog, I'll be manually increasing and decreasing the number of messages, but you can use an application tier with the lambda function to trigger…