Being able to perform startup task and graceful shutdown, is a critical step of using temporary infrastructure to run your application. In this course, we're going to be explaining AWS Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks. This is simply a trigger that can help you perform actions on your instances, when you are launching or terminating as part of your auto scaling group. Hello, and welcome. My name is Carlos Rivas, and I'm a senior AWS content creator here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, using the details shown on the screen. Or you can always get in touch with us by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question. This course was created with two types of audiences in mind; Those of you implementing Auto Scaling groups in AWS, and those attempting the AWS DevOps Certification exam, as this knowledge is essential for this purpose.

For those of you looking to use this skill right away, the course will show you a hands-on example of lifecycle hooks, that you can try right now. If at this time you're doing this course for exam purposes, you'll see that Auto Scaling groups in general are a big part of the DevOps professional exam, as well as features related to auto scaling, including of course, lifecycle hooks. So, either way, this is practical and useful knowledge that you can put to good use right away. By the end of this course, you should have a greater understanding of managing Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks and their uses. Some of the key points we'll be covering in this course include: understand the entire lifecycle of an EC2 instance managed by auto scaling, manipulating this lifecycle to your advantage, an alternative solution to using lifecycle hooks, and using spot instances to take advantage of cost savings and faster completion of workloads.

To get the most out of this course, you should have an understanding of Amazon EC2 infrastructure such as; availability zones, and VPCs, as well as other scaling groups, and use cases for these AWS services. If you need a refresher, check out this great content available here in the Cloud Academy Library. Feedback on our courses here at Cloud Academy is valuable to both us as trainers, and any students looking to take the same course in the future. So, if you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact support@cloudacademy.com. All right, let's get started.