Scale your Amazon ECS using different AWS native services!

Containers accelerate application development and enhance deployment consistency across environments, thus enabling organizations to improve productivity and agility. AWS container services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) make it easier to manage your application so you can focus on innovation and your business needs.

Customer experience is the most important yardstick by which organizations measure the application performance. Maintaining a reliable and consistent end-user experience in the face of varying request patterns is a challenge that every organization faces. As a best practice, you can use automatic scaling to increase (also known as scale-out) or decrease (also known as scale-in) the desired count of tasks in your Amazon ECS service automatically. This eliminates the need to respond manually in real-time to traffic spikes. Automatic scaling optimizes your use and cost efficiencies when consuming AWS services so that you only pay for the resources you actually need.

AWS provides several features that can be leveraged for automatic scaling of your Amazon ECS service. Using the right option improves the overall reliability of your application, reduces operational costs and complexity, and enhances the end-user experience. In this post, you learn about AWS Application Auto Scaling by which you can configure automatic scaling of your Amazon ECS service. You also learn to use Amazon ECS Service Connect and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) that could be used in application auto scaling.

To read further, check my blog @ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/scale-your-amazon-ecs-using-different-aws-native-services/

Originally published at https://aws.amazon.com on March 8, 2024.