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AWS ECS ALB Integration

AWS ECS - ALB IntegrationΒΆ

  • Application Load Balancer (v2) has a direct integration feature with ECS - Elastic Container Service called "[[port mapping]]"
  • This allows you to run multiple instances of the same application on the same AWS EC2 machine
  • Use cases
    • Increased [[resiliency]] even if running on one AWS EC2 instance
    • Maximise [[utilisation]] of [[CPU]] / cores
    • Ability to perform [[rolling upgrade]]s without impacting [[application uptime]]