Step 6: Next steps - Amazon Auto Scaling
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Step 6: Next steps

Now that you have familiarized yourself with scaling plans and some of its features, you may want to try creating your own scaling plan template using Amazon CloudFormation.

An Amazon CloudFormation template is a JSON or YAML-formatted text file that describes the Amazon Web Services infrastructure needed to run an application or service along with any interconnections among infrastructure components. With Amazon CloudFormation, you deploy and manage an associated collection of resources as a stack. Amazon CloudFormation is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the Amazon resources needed to run your applications. Resources can consist of any Amazon resource you define within the template. For more information, see Amazon CloudFormation concepts in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.

In the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide, we provide a simple template to get you started. The sample template is available as an example in the AWS::AutoScalingPlans::ScalingPlan section of the Amazon CloudFormation template reference documentation. The sample template creates a scaling plan for a single Auto Scaling group and enables predictive scaling and dynamic scaling.

For more information, see Getting started with Amazon CloudFormation in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.