DevOps

The Automation-First Approach: Why Businesses Must Evolve Beyond Traditional CI/CD

Introduction In today's fast-paced software landscape, automation isn't just a luxury—it’s a necessity. Organizations need to ship features faster, scale effortlessly, and ensure rock-solid reliability—all without drowning in operational overhead. The solution? A unified, fully automated CI/CD pipeline that does it all. Many...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: ecs
27-Mar-2025

DevOps

Scaling Smartly: Utilizing ECS Fargate Spot Instances to Reduce Production Costs

Introduction Optimizing the cost of running production workloads is essential in today’s cloud-driven world. By using Amazon ECS with Fargate Spot instances, you can significantly reduce your cloud costs while also ensuring that your applications are reliable and functional. Fargate Spot offers a cost-effective solution, offering the...

by Vedansh Singhal
Tag: ecs
05-Sep-2024

AWS, DevOps

Dynamic Port Mapping in ECS with Application Load Balancer

AWS recently launched a new Application Load Balancer (ALB) that supports Dynamic Port Mapping with ECS. It allows you to run two containers of a service on a single server on dynamic ports which ALB automatically detects and reconfigures itself. Amazon EC2 Container Service ECS is a managed container service that allows you to run...

by Tejprakash Sharma
Tag: ecs
24-Jan-2017

AWS, DevOps

Attach IAM Role to an AWS Elastic Container Service Task

If you are hosting some micro websites on the AWS ECS, where every task is a separate application, and each task has running multiple containers on a Cluster. If we have a scenario where we want each of our application should upload its data to a separate AWS S3 bucket, we create a single role giving access to all S3 buckets and attach...

by Tejprakash Sharma
Tag: ecs
30-Jul-2016

AWS, DevOps

Using AWS Lambda Function for AutoScaling of ECS Containers

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service using which you can perform actions by executing some set of code on any event. We are using a lambda function to trigger AWS ECS container auto-scaling that is executed on the SNS event. Below is the AWS Lambda code in node.js that will get Cluster Name, Service Name & Operator...

by Tejprakash Sharma
Tag: ecs
30-Jun-2016