Auto Scaling In Cloud Computing: An Overview

Abstract: Cloud computing is a recent technology to provide resources from the large data centers. Cloud Computing is made available as a service to the users. It has become prominent IT to start a business or to utilize the resources without any capital investment. Cloud services are „pay-per-use‟ over the internet. It is on demand access to virtualized IT services and products. Rackspace, Salesforce, Amazon, Google, IBM, Dell and HP are the well known service providers. Cloud services are chargeable, service providers charging the users using on demand service policy. In order to provide the excellent service, service providers have to improve the scalability factor. In recent trends, the providers use the auto scaling mechanism to scale the resources according to the users need. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of cloud computing and it emphasize the auto scaling.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Scalability, Auto Scaling