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Scale Docker apps with an ECS service

Scale Docker apps with an ECS service - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Scale Docker apps with an ECS service

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- [Instructor] All right, now we've got our app running on an ECS service, let's take advantage of what it can do and scale up. Head to the first tab here, and we'll go out to our cluster just to kind of make the navigation make more sense. Click into the cluster. Click into the service, and click Update service. Very easy to do here. We're just going to go to Desired tasks and choose three. Containers are not nearly as heavyweight as an EC2 instance it will take a lot less time to spin up. So, let's make it three and click Update. Now that we're doing this, we'll see some activity. We can see that our status is at 33%, because our desired is three and we only have one running. So we should also see some tasks begin to launch here on the second tab. And you can see, all right, we've got two in the pending state, so we can kind of watch those with the Refresh button here. In a moment, they'll move into activating state and then to running. And when that's done, we can actually see the…

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