Method and system of hydrating of virtual machines

A system for automatically updating a virtual machine image associated with an auto-scaling group, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, performs operations comprising:
• generating a set of lambda functions for automatically updating a virtual machine image associated with one or more first auto-scaling groups, each first auto-scaling group comprising one or more virtual machines;
• transmitting the set of lambda functions to a server computer;
• tagging a subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups with a hydration tag;
• prompting the server computer to update a first virtual machine image of the virtual machines in each first auto-scaling group in the subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups with the hydration tag with a second virtual machine image using the first, second, and third lambda functions to generate one or more second auto-scaling groups comprising the second virtual machine image;
• and
• accessing content hosted by each first auto-scaling group in the subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups via the second auto-scaling group.

A non-transitory computer readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations, comprising:

• generating, by a client device, a set of lambda functions for automatically updating a virtual machine image associated with one or more first auto-scaling groups, each first auto-scaling group comprising one or more virtual machines;
• transmitting, by the client device, the set of lambda functions to a server computer;
• tagging, by the client device, a subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups with a hydration tag;
• prompting, by the client device, the server computer to update a first virtual machine image of the virtual machines in each first auto-scaling group in the subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups with the hydration tag with a second virtual machine image using the first, second, and third lambda functions to generate one or more second auto-scaling groups comprising the second virtual machine image;
• and
• accessing, by the client device, content hosted by each first auto-scaling group in the subset of the one or more first auto-scaling groups via the second auto-scaling group.