AUTO SCALING DRUPAL IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Drupal applications need to be architected well to support Auto Scaling. In this presentation, we will discuss various settings, to-do’s, best-practices et al to have a successful Drupal site configured for Auto Scaling. We will also go beyond AWS and discuss this from a generic cloud service perspective. Apart from traffic, we will discuss how we can set up configurations based on data size as well.

The biggest advantage of moving to cloud-based infrastructure is to make scaling easier and have the ability to easily add and remove capacity based on organizations needs. Additionally, we can automate this as much as possible. Auto Scaling can enable the automatic increase in the number of server instances during demand spikes to maintain performance and decrease capacity during lulls to reduce costs.