Ensure that your Amazon Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) span across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within an AWS region to expand the availability of your auto-scaled applications.
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When hosting your AWS ASGs within a multi-AZ environment, if one AZ becomes unhealthy or unavailable, the Auto Scaling Group launches new EC2 instances in an unaffected Availability Zone, enhancing the availability and reliability of the ASG.
Audit
To determine if your existing AWS Auto Scaling Groups can deploy instances within multiple Availability Zones, perform the following:
Remediation / Resolution
To expand the availability of your auto-scaled web application by adding new Availability Zones to your existing Auto Scaling Groups configuration, perform the following:
References
- AWS Documentation
- Auto Scaling Groups
- Benefits of Auto Scaling
- Expanding Your Scaled and Load-Balanced Application to an Additional Availability Zone
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- autoscaling
- describe-auto-scaling-groups
- update-auto-scaling-group
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Multi-AZ Auto Scaling Groups
Risk level: Medium