EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift

This article introduces a new feature in EC2 Auto Scaling called zonal shift, which integrates with Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) to help you quickly recover an impaired application from failures in an Availability Zone (AZ).

Specifically, the article covers:

• EC2 Auto Scaling now supports ARC zonal shift to shift instance launches away from an impaired AZ
• ARC zonal autoshift automatically starts a zonal shift when AWS detects a potential AZ failure
• You can initiate a zonal shift from the EC2 Auto Scaling or ARC console, or programmatically using the AWS SDK
• There is no additional charge for using zonal shift
• Zonal shift is now available in all AWS Regions