Time based scaling for your EC2 fleet
Ylastic now supports a new scheduled task - one that can adjust the desired capacity for a scaling group. Why is that interesting, you say? Because it gives you an additional time-based way to scale your fleet of EC2 instances as opposed to the default load-based scaling from AWS. You can leverage the scaling group concept to do some nifty stuff around spinning up and down a set of instances. You want a large set of instances around between 9-5, which matches your business hours? Easy enough. Schedule one task to spin up the capacity at 9 AM and a corresponding matching task that spins them down at 5 PM. You can even use cron syntax to specify the schedule!
