🇵🇰 IAAS · COMPUTE · AUTO SCALING

Scale your fleet by the second — not by the spreadsheet.

QCloud Auto Scaling automatically adds and removes ECS instances based on live metrics, time of day, or predicted demand — keeping your workloads fast during traffic peaks and your bill flat during the quiet hours. All inside Pakistan. All in PKR.

Tier-3 Certified · Reacts in under 60s · PAYG in PKR · Cancel anytime
console › Compute › Auto Scaling Group: as-web-prod Healthy
Target 60%
Min 2 Max 10 Desired 4 CPU 50%
as-web-prod scaled out +2 · 10:42:18  ·  as-api scaled in −1 · 10:42:51  ·  as-batch scheduled scale +4 · 10:43:02  ·  as-web-prod target tracking · cpu 58% · hold  ·  as-stream predictive scale +6 · 10:44:11  ·  as-billing step scale +3 · 10:44:48  ·  as-web-prod scaled out +2 · 10:42:18  ·  as-api scaled in −1 · 10:42:51  ·  as-batch scheduled scale +4 · 10:43:02  ·  as-web-prod target tracking · cpu 58% · hold  ·  as-stream predictive scale +6 · 10:44:11  ·  as-billing step scale +3 · 10:44:48  · 

Built on the same Tier-3 platform that runs Pakistan's banks, telcos, and broadcasters.

QCloud Auto Scaling sits on top of ECS-GP and inherits the same SLA, data residency, and 24/7 in-country support.

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Manual ticket interventions required per scale event
WHAT IT IS

The cloud fleet that breathes with your traffic.

Auto Scaling is the QCloud service that automatically grows and shrinks the number of ECS instances behind your application. Define minimum and maximum bounds, pick a scaling policy (real-time, scheduled, or predictive), and Auto Scaling does the rest — adding capacity in seconds when your traffic spikes, releasing it the moment demand drops. No alerts to triage at 2 AM. No idle servers to apologise for in the next finance review.

Target tracking Step Scheduled Predictive
Target: CPU 60% Schedule: 09:00 +2 Predictive: ML forecast Auto Scaling Group · as-web-prod i-1 i-2 i-3 i-4 i-5 scale in scale out ELB · listener:443 Health Check
Policies decide. Health checks watch. The group adjusts. Always.
WHY AUTO SCALING

Four pillars. One promise.

01
AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENTS

Decisions made for you, by the second.

Scheduled, dynamic, and alarm-driven scaling — all configured once and run forever.

Scheduled · Dynamic · Alarm-driven
02
HIGH AVAILABILITY

Multi-AZ, always-on by default.

Lose an instance, lose a zone — your group just keeps serving traffic.

99.999% multi-AZ SLA
03
FAULT TOLERANCE

Sick instances replaced before users notice.

Health checks watch every member. Failures are quietly swapped out.

Auto-replace unhealthy hosts
04
LOW COST

Pay for what you actually use.

Scale to zero in the quiet hours, scale to the ceiling in the spike. Hourly PKR.

Pay per hour, in PKR
SCALING POLICIES

One service. Four policies. Each one matches your traffic shape.

Pick the policy that fits how your traffic actually behaves — or combine several. QCloud Auto Scaling supports the full set.

CORE FUNCTIONS

Three functions, working in one motion.

F.01

Auto Scaling

Add or remove instances based on schedules, metrics, or forecasts — without writing a single ticket.

< 60s reaction · up to 100 instances per group · 4 policy types
F.02

Automatic Load Balancing

Every new instance is automatically registered with your ELB listener and drained on scale-in. No DNS dance, no warm-up gaps.

ELB listener registration · graceful drain · zero-downtime
F.03

Auto Instance Adjustment

Health checks watch every member of the group. The unhealthy ones are replaced before your users notice.

health-check interval 15s · auto-replace · activity log
HOW IT WORKS

The auto-scaling lifecycle — loops, forever.

STAGE 01 · OBSERVE

Metrics streamed every 60s (CPU, RAM, RPS, queue depth)

Polling interval — 60s
Cooldown default — 300s
Instance warmup — configurable
USE CASES

Different industries. Same scaling DNA.

BANKING · MONTH-END

Banking & fintech — month-end surges

Core banking, payment processing, and KYC pipelines see predictable end-of-month spikes. Schedule scaling for the surge, target-track the baseline, and stay inside State Bank's data-residency rules.

month-end peak
Scheduled + Target Data residency

Sale event traffic

E-COMMERCE · CAMPAIGNS

Black Friday and Eid sale events 10× normal traffic. Predictive scaling pre-warms the fleet 30 minutes before the campaign goes live.

Match-day streaming

MEDIA · LIVE

Cricket, election nights, breaking news. Step-scale for the surge, scale in conservatively overnight.

Billing-cycle batches

TELCO · BSS

Monthly billing batches push CPU hard for 4–6 hours. Scheduled scaling pre-warms; auto-replace handles failed batch hosts.

Timezone traffic

SAAS · GLOBAL

Daily diurnal curves. Predictive + target tracking together flatten the curve and cut idle compute by 40%.

Exam result days

GOVERNMENT · BURST

Result-portal days have known, narrow traffic peaks. Pre-scale by schedule, watch with health checks.

THE PROOF

A static fleet pays for the peak. Auto Scaling pays for the truth.

Two charts. Same workload. One is what you provision without Auto Scaling — the other is what Auto Scaling lets you spend.

Static fleet · always-on
IDLE COST
Wasted spend this month
PKR 0
Auto-scaled fleet · adaptive
Spend this month
PKR 0

Same workload. ~40% lower bill. Without sacrificing a single SLA second.

INTEGRATIONS & PREREQUISITES

Plugs straight into your existing QCloud stack.

Web API Worker Auto Scaling Group i-1 i-2 i-3 i-4 ECS-GP IMS ELB EVS
REQUIRES

An active QCloud account, at least one custom or public image (IMS), and a VPC with subnets in your chosen region(s).

RECOMMENDED

An Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) attached to the group, and EVS volumes pre-baked into your golden image.

OPTIONAL

A CloudWatch-equivalent metric source for custom-metric step or target-tracking policies.

FAQ

Everything you actually need to know before you switch on Auto Scaling.

🇵🇰 PAKISTAN'S DYNAMIC CLOUD

Trigger your first auto-scale event in under a day.

$100 in cloud credit. A free month of Auto Scaling. A real scaling expert assigned to your account from day one.

Live · 14 Auto Scaling groups provisioned across QCloud this week
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