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Autoscaling with the Windows Azure Service Management REST API

Autoscaling with the Windows Azure Service Management REST API

This article explains how the Windows Azure Service Management REST API can be used to autoscale a hosted service, so that it can handle the current and predicted load depending on the day of the week. By autoscale we mean the ability of a hosted service to scale itself elastically by modifying automatically the number of running instances.