You can use scaling policies to increase or decrease the number of running EC2 instances in your group automatically to meet changing conditions. When the scaling policy is in effect, the Auto Scaling group adjusts the desired capacity of the group and launches or terminates the instances as needed. If you manually scale or scale on a schedule, you must adjust the desired capacity of the group in order for the changes to take effect. For more information, see Scaling the Size of Your Auto Scaling Group.
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