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Notes
Don't miss our blog post Scaling Container Clusters on AWS: ECS and EKS, the written version of this podcast episode.
ECS with Cluster Auto Scaling
- ECS task lifecycle, new state
PROVISIONINGfor clusters with capacity provider. - Check out Deep Dive on Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling when interested in more details.
ECS with DIY Auto Scaling
- Scale out with CloudWatch event
SERVICE_TASK_PLACEMENT_FAILURE. - Scale in based on CloudWatch metrics
CPUReservationandMemoryReservation. - Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks
- Container Instance Draining
- Check out our open source project widdix/aws-cf-templates including an implementation of the discussed DIY Auto Scaling for ECS clusters.
EKS with Cluster Autoscaler
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