Proactive scaling of Amazon ECS services using Amazon ECS Service Connect Metrics
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This article explains how to proactively scale Amazon ECS services using custom metrics available through Amazon ECS Service Connect, which enables secure and scalable communication between microservices.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Background on microservices architectures and Amazon ECS Service Connect
- How Service Connect provides service-to-service communication and publishes metrics like RequestCount
- Steps to explore Service Connect metrics in CloudWatch and identify thresholds
- Creating a CloudWatch alarm based on the RequestCount metric
- Configuring service auto scaling to scale tasks based on the alarm
- Validating the auto scaling by simulating high traffic
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