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Using Scheduled scaling policy to scale your ECS (or EKS) workloads #49

Open dalbhanj opened 5 years ago

dalbhanj commented 5 years ago

Use case: If your application traffic is predictable, launch EC2 Containers Instances or EKS Worker Nodes at predefined intervals using Scheduled scaling policies. Author should also weigh in newer ASG features such as Predictive and Dynamic Scaling and share thoughts for this use case

Helpful links: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-as-scheduledaction.html