A parks department hears Auto Scaling and load balancing used interchangeably for a permit site. How should the IT lead distinguish them?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of a grocery store: Auto Scaling opens or closes checkout lanes based on how busy it is, while the load balancer is the greeter sending shoppers to open lanes. One changes how many servers you have; the other spreads the work across them. Mixing those jobs up makes capacity and traffic sound like the same knob.
Full Explanation
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling changes the number of instances to match demand. A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across healthy targets. Teams commonly place Auto Scaling groups behind a load balancer so traffic and capacity stay aligned, but the services are not interchangeable. TLS termination, relational storage, DNS caching, and EBS encryption are not the defining purposes of either service in this contrast.