Testing AWS Elastic Beanstalk scaling
I've set up a server in elastic beanstalk. When required, it is supposed to increase the number of instances from 1 to up to 4. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that when it starts a new instance that instance won't be properly configured, because I was unable to install the mySQL module for Python without ssh'ing into the instance and setting it up manually, as per this question . So my first question is what is the best way to test that Elastic Beanstalk is scaling correctly? If new instances are started up, how can I be sure that I'm seeing one of the new ones rather than the original,