5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“we switched from fargate to EC2 auto scaling group so we could run a custom AMI”
endorse · production · leetrout · 2025-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We never even got close to getting autoscaling working nicely on the web and app server plane”
regret · production · bigiain · 2020-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Use auto-scaling groups in your stateless front ends that don't have really bursty loads, it isn't responsive enough for really sharp spikes”
mixed · production · cachemiss · 2015-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were already mostly Launch Templates/ASGs, so updates are always new instances”
neutral · production · hayd · 2021-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Run a pgbouncer ASG with a load balancer in front for applications to connect to.”
neutral · production · phamilton · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?