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Implement Auto Scaling for Amazon ECS

In this lab, you’ll practice scaling ECS containers and ECS instances. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have an ECS cluster with EC2 instance and Service Autoscaling configured.

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Labs - Implement Auto Scaling for Amazon ECS

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Rating (25)
Level
Beginner
Duration
1h
Released
Jul 28, 2022

Lab author

Lab Author: Miguel  Saavedra
Miguel Saavedra
Miguel Saavedra is an author, solutions architect, and Instructor specializing in AWS, big data, automation, and security. He has worked in several companies in the finance/fintech, education, and medical industries as well as some government projects. He has published and conducted research on both cloud and on-premise solutions for big data focusing on network analytics, and machine learning. He also designs highly available and automated CICD toolchains for high throughput microservices on AW... moreS.
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Challenge

Check the Deployed Globomantics Site

Start by viewing what you’re working with. In this task, you will be viewing the web page you will be scaling.

Challenge

Create Scale Up CloudWatch Alarms for Request Count

Scaling rules for both ECS and EC2 must be based on a CloudWatch alarm. You now need to create alarms to monitor ELB request count as the basis for ECS Service Auto Scaling.

Challenge

Create CloudWatch Alarm for ECS Reservation

Scaling rules for both ECS and EC2 must be based on a CloudWatch Alarm. As your ECS Services add more tasks, you will need more instances to host those tasks. You will create an alarm for ECS reserved memory as the basis for EC2 Auto Scaling.

Challenge

Create ECS Service Scaling Rules

With the alarms now set up, now we can configure scaling rules. The first set of rules you’ll configure will allow ECS to provision additional Docker containers based on the Requests made to the load balancer.

Challenge

Create EC2 Auto Scaling Rules

The second set of rules you’ll configure will allow EC2 Autoscaling to provision additional EC2 instances containers based on the ECS Cluster memory reservation.

Challenge

Test Your Autoscaling Rules

Your rules should now be ready to go! You can now test these rules and simulate a large number of requests to your application.

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

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  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon ECS
  • Docker Containers
  • EC2 Autoscaling

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