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Understand your application's workload patterns and performance metrics.
20 May 2026 by
Tony FinOps

  • Understand your application's workload patterns and performance metrics.

  • Define effective scaling policies.

  • Use Auto Scaling Service to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services.

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List of services:
  • ECS Auto Scaling

  • RDS Auto Scaling

  • EKS Auto Mode

  • DynamoDB Auto Scaling

  • SQS Metrics

  • Lambda Scaling

  • Auto Scaling Service

 

ECS Auto Scaling

ECS Auto Scaling allows you to increase or decrease the desired number of tasks in your Amazon ECS service automatically.

  • Amazon ECS publishes CloudWatch metrics with your service’s average CPU and memory usage.

  • Use these metrics to scale out during high utilization or scale in during low utilization.

 

Auto Scaling Service

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

  • Easily set up application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.

  • Supports scaling for:

    • Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets

    • Amazon ECS tasks

    • Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes

    • Amazon Aurora Replicas

 

 

 

 

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