Scale to 15,000+ tasks in a single Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster

Introduction

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies your deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. Amazon ECS has deep AWS integrations and best practices built-in, which enable you to run and scale your applications in the cloud or on-premises, without the complexity of managing a control plane. AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine built into Amazon ECS, which enables you to focus on building and scaling your applications without needing to worry about managing servers, scaling capacity, and security and compliance of your infrastructure.

As your business grows and customer demand increases, the scalability of your applications becomes crucial to success. In this post, we’ll demonstrate the powerful simplicity of Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to seamlessly scale an application to 15,000+ tasks on a brand-new AWS account. We’ll describe the limits encountered, resolutions, and …