--- title: "Auto Scaling on Indian Cloud — Scale Groups with Elastic & Scheduled Policies" description: "Auto Scaling on E2E Cloud: scale groups that grow and shrink compute nodes on CPU, memory or custom metrics. Elastic + cron-based scheduled policies, load balancer integration, hourly INR billing from Indian data centers." url: "https://www.e2enetworks.com/auto-scaling" canonical: "https://www.e2enetworks.com/auto-scaling" provider: "E2E Networks Limited" type: "Service" keywords: ["autoscaling cloud india", "auto scaling groups", "auto scaling cloud compute", "scale group cloud india"] priceCurrency: "INR" taxNote: "Prices exclude GST" region: "India (Delhi NCR, Chennai)" generated: "2026-09-11" --- # Auto Scaling on Indian Cloud — Scale Groups with Elastic & Scheduled Policies > Auto Scaling on E2E Cloud: scale groups that grow and shrink compute nodes on CPU, memory or custom metrics. Elastic + cron-based scheduled policies, load balancer integration, hourly INR billing from Indian data centers. Canonical page: https://www.e2enetworks.com/auto-scaling Capacity that follows your traffic, not your forecasts. Scale groups launch and terminate compute nodes automatically against a policy you define — CPU, memory, a custom metric, or a cron schedule. Billed hourly in INR, from Indian data centers, with a 99.9% uptime SLA. ## At a glance - **Hourly** — Node billing, launch → terminate - **150s** — Default cooldown between actions - **Up to 50** — Nodes per scale group - **99.9%** — Uptime SLA ## Platform capabilities - **Elastic policies** — Scale on CPU by default, or on memory, network and disk I/O metrics. Set add/remove thresholds, watch period and cooldown — the Scaler even auto-creates the matching scale-down rule for your scale-up threshold. - **Scheduled policies** — Know your peak hours? Cron-based upscale and downscale recurrences pre-warm capacity before traffic arrives and release it after — and you can combine scheduled with elastic in one group. - **Custom metrics** — Publish any attribute — queue depth, requests per second, inference backlog — via the OneGate endpoint. The Scaler averages it across the group and scales when your threshold is crossed. - **Load balancer native** — Attach the group as an Auto Scale Group backend on an E2E Application Load Balancer. New nodes are listed and terminated nodes de-listed automatically. - **Encrypted at rest** — Optional LUKS full-disk encryption (aes-xts-plain64, 512-bit key) applied automatically to every node the Scaler launches. - **Full observability** — CPU, memory and disk graphs per group, audit logs of every Scaler state transition, and an activity timeline of every resize, policy update and attach/detach — with who did it and whether it succeeded. ## How it works 1. **Bake a saved image** — Save an image of a node configured to start your application at boot. Every node the Scaler launches boots from it, ready to serve. 2. **Pick a plan & limits** — Choose a compute plan (independent of the image's original plan) and set minimum, maximum and desired node counts. 3. **Define the policy** — Elastic thresholds, a cron schedule, or both. Add VPC, static public IP, encryption and security groups at creation time. 4. **Attach your LB** — Front the group with a load balancer as the stable entry point, then watch the monitoring tab as the Scaler does the rest. ## Scaling policy options | Policy type | Trigger | Best for | Key parameters | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Elastic — Default | CPU utilization crosses your add/remove thresholds | Web apps and APIs with variable traffic | Thresholds & operators, watch period (default 3), period duration (default 10), cooldown (default 150s) | | Elastic — Custom | Any metric you publish (MEMORY, NETTX, NETRX, disk IOPS, or your own attribute) | Queue workers, batch inference, I/O-bound services | Policy parameter name, node utilization thresholds, scaling period policy | | Scheduled | Cron recurrence at fixed times | Predictable peaks — business hours, weekend sales, nightly batch jobs | Upscale/downscale recurrence and node cardinality | | Elastic + Scheduled | Both of the above together | Predictable baseline with unpredictable spikes on top | All parameters of both policies in one scale group | ## Common use cases - **Traffic spikes** — Flash sales, campaign launches, exam-result days. Elastic CPU policies add nodes within your watch period and shed them in cooldown — behind one stable load balancer IP. - **Batch inference** — Publish queue depth as a custom metric and let the group grow with the backlog. Pair with GPU nodes or TIR endpoints for model serving that scales itself. - **Predictable cycles** — Scheduled cron policies pre-warm capacity before 9am and wind it down at midnight — no metric lag, no cold starts, no idle burn. ## Frequently asked questions ### What exactly is a scale group? A scale group is a pool of identical compute nodes managed by E2E's Scaler service. You define the saved image nodes boot from, the plan they run on, minimum/maximum/desired counts, and the policy that decides when nodes are added or removed. ### Which metrics can trigger scaling? CPU is the default. Without any scripting, the platform also reports MEMORY, NETTX, NETRX, DISKWRIOPS, DISKRDIOPS and DISKWRBYTES. For anything else — request rate, queue depth, GPU backlog — publish a custom attribute via the OneGate endpoint and reference it in a custom policy. ### How do I connect a scale group to a load balancer? From the load balancer side: add the scale group as an Auto Scale Group backend on an Application Load Balancer. The LB then tracks the pool automatically as the Scaler adds and removes nodes. ### What happens when I stop a scale group? Stop sets the desired count to zero, removes the nodes and pauses billing, while your image, plan and policy settings are retained. Start returns the group to Running with desired = minimum. Resize lets you set the active count anywhere between min and max. ### Can auto-scaled nodes be encrypted? Yes — enable encryption at creation time and every node the Scaler launches gets LUKS full-disk encryption (aes-xts-plain64, 512-bit key). Note it can only be enabled when the group is created. ## Get started Launch a scale group in minutes. 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