Nobus FCS Auto Scaling

Add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in demand.

Nobus FCS Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove FCS instances according to conditions you define.

You can use the fleet management features of FCS Auto Scaling to maintain the health and availability of your fleet. You can also use the dynamic and predictive scaling features of FCS Auto Scaling to add or remove FCS instances.

Dynamic scaling responds to changing demand and predictive scaling automatically schedules the right number of FCS instances based on predicted demand. Dynamic scaling and predictive scaling can be used together to scale faster.

Note: NOBUS FCS Auto Scaling is enabled by NOBUS and carries no additional fees. NOBUS FCS and NOBUS service fees apply and are billed separately.

Benefits

IMPROVE FAULT TOLERANCE
Nobus FCS Auto Scaling can detect when an instance is unhealthy, terminate it, and replace it with a new one.
INCREASE APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
Nobus FCS Auto Scaling ensures that your application always has the right amount of compute, and also proactively provisions capacity with Predictive Scaling.
LOWER COSTS
Nobus FCS Auto Scaling adds instances only when needed, and can scale across purchase options to optimize performance and cost.

How it works

Fleet Management

Whether you are running one Nobus FCS instance or thousands, you can use Nobus FCS Auto Scaling to detect impaired Nobus FCS instances and unhealthy applications, and replace the instances without your intervention. This ensures that your application is getting the compute capacity that you expect. Nobus FCS Auto Scaling will perform three main functions to automate fleet management for FCS instances:

  • Monitor the health of running instances
    Nobus FCS Auto Scaling ensures that your application is able to receive traffic and that FCS instances are working properly. Nobus FCS Auto Scaling periodically performs health checks to identify any instances that are unhealthy.
  • Replace impaired instances automatically
    When an impaired instance fails a health check, Nobus FCS Auto Scaling automatically terminates it and replaces it with a new one. That means that you don’t need to respond manually when an instance needs replacing.
  • Balance capacity across Availability Zones
    Nobus FCS Auto Scaling can automatically balance instances across zones, and always launches new instances so that they are balanced between zones as evenly as possible across your entire fleet.
Scheduled Scaling

Scaling based on a schedule allows you to scale your application ahead of known load changes. For example, every week the traffic to your web application starts to increase on Wednesday, remains high on Thursday, and starts to decrease on Friday. You can plan your scaling activities based on the known traffic patterns of your web application.

Dynamic Scaling

Nobus FCS Auto Scaling enables you to follow the demand curve for your applications closely, reducing the need to manually provision Nobus FCS capacity in advance. For example, you can use target tracking scaling policies to select a load metric for your application, such as CPU utilization. Or, you could set a target value using the new “Request Count Per Target” metric from Application Load Balancer, a load balancing option for the Elastic Load Balancing service. Nobus FCS Auto Scaling will then automatically adjust the number of FCS instances as needed to maintain your target.

Predictive Scaling

Predictive Scaling, a feature of Nobus Auto Scaling uses machine learning to schedule the right number of FCS instances in anticipation of approaching traffic changes. Predictive Scaling predicts future traffic, including regularly-occurring spikes, and provisions the right number of FCS instances in advance. Predictive Scaling’s machine learning algorithms detect changes in daily and weekly patterns, automatically adjusting their forecasts. This removes the need for manual adjustment of Auto Scaling parameters as cyclicality changes over time, making Auto Scaling simpler to configure. Auto Scaling enhanced with Predictive Scaling delivers faster, simpler, and more accurate capacity provisioning resulting in lower cost and more responsive applications.