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Auto Scaling uses CloudWatch alarms to trigger scaling actions. An alarm watches a single metric (for example: CPU utilization) over a time period you set, and performs one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a given threshold. CloudWatch alarms will not invoke actions just because they are in a particular state. For more information, see the Eucalyptus CloudWatch documentation in the Eucalyptus User Guide.