Deployments and management leverage AWS Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) to easy and repeatable implementations. BIG-IP over AWS, you can protect your application using the best application protection, just as if you were in your own data center.
One of the reasons why large companies think about using the public cloud is the ability to pay only for what they use, which allows them to handle scenarios where there are peaks in demand over time, without having to invest heavily in their own data center infrastructure.
However, to ensure minimal costs, you must be able to spin up new servers (or containers) at any given time to handle the highest demand and turn them off when demand decreases. And you want this to be as automated as possible. But this is not something that magically happens by itself, it can be complex.
ALTERNATIVES
- Keep a predetermined number of instances active at all times, but incur charges.
- Develop code to monitor demand and control the activation and deactivation of instances.