US Patent 9069606 Autonomous application-level auto-scaling in a cloud

A method and system for application-level auto-scaling in a cloud computing environment is provided. An example system includes a data collector and a scaling module. The data collector is to collect application-level data that reflects demand for a subject computing application executing on the virtual instance of a machine provided by a virtualization service. The scaling module is to select a scaling action based on the application-level data and issue a request to perform the scaling action with respect to the virtual instance of a machine.