hands-on lab

Auto scaling and testing an Amazon ECS deployment

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Students: 105

Rating: 5/5

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Description

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a managed container orchestration service that you can use to run your containerized workloads in the public AWS cloud. By using Amazon ECS, you avoid the technical complexity of creating and managing the infrastructure required to securely and reliably run production workloads.

Amazon ECS supports scaling your workloads automatically in response to dynamically changing demand. Learning how to use auto scaling with Amazon ECS can make your workloads cheaper to run and more reliable.

In this hands-on lab, you will configure an Amazon ECS service to automatically scale based on an Amazon CloudWatch metric.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

Configure auto scaling for an ECS service using the AWS command-line interface (CLI)
Perform a load test on a web application running in ECS
Observe the auto scaling process using the Amazon ECS console