AWS ECS scheduled scaling and varying capacity with Terraform
Why? As part of our cost reduction at Cisco Cloud Security, we are always expected to find ways to reduce our expenses from the obvious reasons. Circumstances We normally use CloudWatch metrics to increase and decrease the number of running containers. This is fine as long as the load distribution over time is unpredictable, and the peaks are long enough to actually make use of the new allocated resources. The problem
Short predictable loads over API endpoints, cause more c