How to configure memory based Auto Scaling on Amazon EC2?

I think you can use the new signaling feature, monitor the memory metric and start the instance using api.

I have not done it with Rails, but with java in Tomcat. We used tomcat valves/scripts to detect the memory usage and post it in Amazon cloudWatch as Custom cloud watch metrics. You can create an scale out trigger based on cloudwatch alarm monitoring this metric.

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