ECS autoscaling resources

Autoscaling resources on ECS is simple but optimizing it for the cost and capacity becomes a difficult task once the scale of workload increases.

Below are few interesting resources which are helpful and good to know

Nice video explaining Target tracking policy,how to estimate and plan for the target to be tracked.

Article on official Amazon blog explaining the details of ECS autoscaling.

This article shows us the inticracies of scale up and scale down and prepares us for the surprises hidden beneath.

I strongly suggest giving some time to go through them before planning on scaling your cluster.