Quick guide: How to resize AWS EC2 instance Scale up | Linux Today

Quick guide: How to resize AWS EC2 instance Scale up

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Jul 20, 2017

Sometimes your current EC2 instance is over utilized meaning that, resources within EC2 instance such as CPU or memory are remaining at their peak all the time. In such case you need to scale up the EC2 instance. This article will quickly guide you about how to resize AWS EC2 instance (Backed by EBS volume) to match the load on the system.

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