
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling automatically manages the capacity of self-hosted Azure Pipelines agents on AWS, scaling up during peak build times and down during off-hours to optimize costs while maintaining sufficient deployment capacity.


<div><p>This article explains how to use Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to automatically manage Azure Pipelines agent capacity on AWS, enabling cost-effective CI/CD deployments.</p><ul><li>Deploy self-hosted Azure Pipelines agents on EC2 with automatic scaling based on demand</li><li>CloudFormation template provisions Auto Scaling group, Systems Manager documents, and EventBridge rules</li><li>Agents automatically register with Azure DevOps on launch and unregister on termination</li><li>Supports both Windows and Linux agents with custom or AWS-supplied AMIs</li><li>Scheduled scaling reduces costs by scaling down during off-peak hours</li><li>Secure credential storage using Systems Manager Parameter Store</li><li>Minimal IAM permissions assigned to each resource and agent instance</li></ul><p>This solution helps organizations optimize Azure DevOps CI/CD costs on AWS by automatically scaling agent pools based on workload schedules while maintaining sufficient capacity for timely builds.</p></div>


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