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title: Overview
description: Learn about Autoscale on WP Engine's Managed Hosting Platform.
url: https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/
image: https://developers.wpengine.com/og/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale.png
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# Overview

Autoscale is built for sites that cannot afford downtime and automatically adjusts infrastructure to help maintain performance and availability during unpredictable traffic surges.

Autoscale is designed for high-traffic eCommerce, media, publishing, and brand sites whose teams use Git-based development or CI/CD workflows. It helps your team focus on the application and the customer experience instead of manually responding to traffic spikes.

[Autoscale Architecture](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/architecture)How Autoscale is built, and what its design means for your application.

[WP Engine Pipelines](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/pipelines)The Git-based build and deployment workflow every Autoscale site uses.

## Automatic scaling

- **Elastic web capacity**: Automatically scales web resources to respond to changing traffic levels.
- **Database scaling**: Adjusts database resources as application demand changes.
- **Container orchestration**: Coordinates application resources across the platform in response to real-time demand.
- **Caching and CDN support**: Helps deliver content efficiently to visitors across global regions.

## Built-in operations and security

- **High availability**: Use redundant infrastructure designed to support continued availability during infrastructure disruptions.
- **Performance visibility**: Review capacity and performance information to understand how the platform responds to demand.
- **Enterprise security controls**: Use features such as a web application firewall, multi-factor authentication, and single sign-on where available for your account.
- **Deployment workflow**: Use [WP Engine Pipelines](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/pipelines) to manage code changes with Git-based deployment guardrails.
- **Managed operations**: Benefit from continuous monitoring and automated platform maintenance.

[Set Up an Autoscale Site](https://wpengine.com/support/how-autoscale-works/#toc-set-up-an-autoscale-site)Add a site to Autoscale from the WP Engine User Portal.

> #### Related Content
>
> - [WordPress on Autoscale](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/wordpress)
> - [Product Compatibility](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/compatibility)
> - [WordPress Constants](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/constants)
> - [WordPress Core Version](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/managed-hosting-platform/autoscale/wordpress-version)

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