How to auto-scale AWS with Addons

I'm wanting to enable auto scaling or atleast have a few instances running that I can shut-down / bring up as needed on AWS. I currently have internal_data and data and attachments being stored on S3 and cloudfront for CDN caching and an RDS database. I can create a snapshot or AMI of an instance, but if I need to change addons or install an addon, it would install only for the server my load balancer sends me to. I've seen old threads from 2017 with some users using rsync, but...

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