Day 55 - Scaling & Ops Playbook
Date: 2025-11-21 (Friday)
Status: “Planned”
Scaling and Cost Controls
Plan instance-level scaling and multi-concurrency to match steady traffic while capping spend.
Scaling Guardrails
- Max vCPU per capacity provider to bound total instances
- Choose instance families per workload (compute/memory/network)
- Steady traffic: prefer larger instances with multi-concurrency; spiky: reconsider default Lambda
Cost & Pricing
- Apply EC2 Savings Plans/Reserved Instances to LMI capacity
- Monitor utilization vs. commitments; adjust instance mix as needed
Rollout Checklist
- Capacity provider configured with correct role/VPC/instance allowlist
- Function versions published; warm paths verified (no cold starts)
- CloudWatch access validated; alerts on errors/latency/concurrency
- Run benchmark comparing LMI vs. default Lambda for your workload