How to prevent hug of death on EC2 Instance?

I've a iOS app on the app store and recently I've received a huge surge of traffic to my landing page hosted on EC2 and resulted in the page not responding, luckily I managed to recover it by restarting and upgrading the instance to a t2.medium.

Now I'm looking to hire someone to implement a technology to prevent the same death again. My experience only stretch that far allowing me to understand basic devops stuff but not enough for load balancer on AWS, I want to know what is a affordable implementation for my instance.

My landing page and iOS app backend are hosted on the same instance.

If you want something quick to get this sorted without much more knowledge I'd recommend elastic beanstalk. It's another AWS application which will handle the load balancer configuration and instance scaling for you.

There's no extra cost on top of the load balancer and instances so you can keep using t2 type instances but let elastic beanstalk scale as much as you want to help.

Auto scaling isn't instant and in times of spiking traffic will take a short amount of time, minutes normally, to be able to handle a spike but it will be much better than manually scaling the instance size and is really easy to get to grips with.

StackExchange DevOps Q#2180, answer score: 8