One of the great things about the cloud is that it enables you to scale workloads so that you pay only for what you use. But another important benefit that …

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In July of 2014, without much fanfare, Amazon Web Services released one of its most valuable (and possibly underutilized) updates for its Auto Scaling service: Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks. Auto …

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