c# - Is possible to programmatically scale Azure instances?

Question

Are there some Azure APIs that allow me to access the scaling functionalities from my C# code in Visual Studio? For example, I need to scale from 2 to 5 instances when some football matches end, and go back to 2 after 1 hour.

Answer 1

This indeed possible using The Autoscaling Application Block, that enables to auto-scale using custom metrics. Nevertheless, note that this library is no longer maintained.

You may want to also read the updated Autoscaling guidance, which also describes the Autoscaling Application Block mentioned above.