Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling
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This article announces faster service auto scaling for Amazon ECS with support for high-resolution 20-second metrics and metric publishing optimizations.
- Scale-out detection improved from 363 to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x improvement)
- Total scaling and task provisioning time reduced from 386 to 109 seconds (72% faster, 3.5x improvement)
- Target tracking policies for CPU and memory now support 20-second metric resolution alongside default 60-second resolution
- Available across all ECS compute options: Fargate, Managed Instances, and EC2
- Enables reduced baseline capacity and lower compute costs while maintaining reliability
Faster auto scaling helps organizations respond quicker to workload demand changes and optimize infrastructure costs.
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