Aws Ec2 Container Service Autoscaling

Now with the new service auto scaling feature and amazon cloudwatch alarms you can use scaling policies to scale ecs services.

Aws ec2 container service autoscaling.

When creating an auto scaling group capacity provider with managed scaling enabled amazon ecs manages the scale in and scale out actions of the auto scaling group used when creating the capacity provider. You ve always had the option to scale clusters automatically with amazon ec2 container service amazon ecs. Automatic scaling is the ability to increase or decrease the desired count of tasks in your amazon ecs service automatically. With cas you can configure ecs to scale your asg automatically and just focus on running your tasks.

Ecs cluster auto scaling cas is a new capability for ecs to manage the scaling of ec2 auto scaling groups asg. Ecs will ensure the asg scales in and out as needed with no further intervention required. Amazon ecs leverages the application auto scaling service to provide this functionality. For more information see the application auto scaling user guide.

Amazon ec2 container service with autoscaling capabilities use amazon ecs containers to setup docker based elastic build executors. Amazon ecs cluster auto scaling enables you to have more control over how you scale the amazon ec2 instances within a cluster.