Auto Scaling Launch Templates
- Similar to a launch configuration,
- specifies instance configuration information.
- It specify
- ID of Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
- instance type
- a key pair
- security groups
- multiple versions of a template can be made.
- With versioning, a subset of full set of parameters can be made and reused to create other templates or template versions.
- Can provision capacity across multiple instance types using both On-Demand and Spot Instances
- If using launch configurations, can specify launch template if Auto Scaling group is updated and was created using a launch configuration.
