Scale & Backup region

Scale#

The scale section helps the deployments to scale or extend to a new region or add a backup region for the deployments. The locations can be selected using a search bar with filters.

Note: Multiple regions can be selected and deployed together. It has three indicators namely, active regions, available regions and backup regions.

An active region is a region that is provisioned for you app

An available region is a region that is available to be provisioned

A backup region is a region where the app is deployed as a backup for high availability and disaster recovery purposes

scale to your required region

To Scale resources#

Scale your application to different regions using the scale feature.

  1. Go to left navigation tab > select an application> the Scale tab
  2. Use filters (optional). You can choose latency or geo based routing. By default the latency based routing gets selected.
  3. Select regions from drop down menu and choose you desired region in which you want to scale you app
  4. Click deploy

Once you scale the application, new regions will be visible in the app>overview page.

To create a Backup region#

Create a backup region using the toggle bar for backup mode on the Scale section.

  1. Go to left navigation tab > select an application> the Scale tab
  2. Enable back up mode using the toggle on the right side
  3. From the drop down, select a backup region
  4. Click deploy backup
Add Backup region