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AWS wellarchitected documentation change

Service: wellarchitected · 2025-11-22 · Documentation low

File: wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_compute_hardware_scale_compute_resources_dynamically.md

Summary

Updated references from 'Auto Scaling group' to 'Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group' for clarity

Security assessment

Branding clarification with no security implications. Scaling mechanisms and security posture remain unaffected.

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_compute_hardware_scale_compute_resources_dynamically.md b/wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_compute_hardware_scale_compute_resources_dynamically.md
index ac852e51c..5a00edd6b 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_compute_hardware_scale_compute_resources_dynamically.md
+++ b//wellarchitected/latest/performance-efficiency-pillar/perf_compute_hardware_scale_compute_resources_dynamically.md
@@ -61 +61 @@ Autoscaling Mechanism  |  Where to use
-    * The metric value must increase or decrease proportionally to the number of instances in the Auto Scaling group. 
+    * The metric value must increase or decrease proportionally to the number of instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. 
@@ -63 +63 @@ Autoscaling Mechanism  |  Where to use
-  * Make sure that you use [dynamic scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html) instead of [manual scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-manual-scaling.html) for your Auto Scaling group. We also recommend that you use [target tracking scaling policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html) in your dynamic scaling. 
+  * Make sure that you use [dynamic scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scale-based-on-demand.html) instead of [manual scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-manual-scaling.html) for your Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. We also recommend that you use [target tracking scaling policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html) in your dynamic scaling. 
@@ -65 +65 @@ Autoscaling Mechanism  |  Where to use
-  * Verify that workload deployments can handle both scaling events (up and down). As an example, you can use [Activity history](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-verify-scaling-activity.html) to verify a scaling activity for an Auto Scaling group. 
+  * Verify that workload deployments can handle both scaling events (up and down). As an example, you can use [Activity history](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-verify-scaling-activity.html) to verify a scaling activity for an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. 
@@ -88 +88 @@ Autoscaling Mechanism  |  Where to use
-  * [Deep Dive on Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/deep-dive-on-amazon-ecs-cluster-auto-scaling/)
+  * [Deep Dive on Amazon ECS Cluster Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/deep-dive-on-amazon-ecs-cluster-auto-scaling/)