Container-based processing

ECS tasks with AWS Fargate

Containerized image processing applications running on AWS Fargate with automatic scaling based on CPU utilization and request volume. The architecture offers T-shirt sizing options (S, M, L, XL) for different performance requirements while requiring no server management as Fargate handles infrastructure provisioning.

Application Load Balancer

Distributes requests across multiple ECS tasks for high availability with health checks ensuring traffic routes only to healthy container instances. The load balancer provides support for connection pooling and keep-alive connections, along with SSL termination and HTTP/2 support for optimal performance.

Scaling configuration

The minimum task count ensures baseline capacity while the maximum task count prevents runaway scaling costs. Target CPU utilization triggers scale-out events, and scale-in cooldown periods prevent thrashing to maintain stable performance.