Scale your Amazon ECS using different AWS native services!
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This article discusses different AWS native services that can be used to automatically scale Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) based on varying traffic patterns and workload demands.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Application Auto Scaling for scaling ECS services based on CPU, memory, and custom metrics
- Amazon ECS Service Connect for traffic monitoring and automatically publishing metrics to CloudWatch
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) for instrumenting applications to send telemetry data to CloudWatch
- How metrics from these services can be used to configure auto scaling policies
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of automatic scaling for maintaining reliable user experience
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