Edit: Jan 5, 2020 Link to heading The following blog post describes using AWS ECS to autoscale a containerized service. While most of this blog post still applies, AWS has since released better ECS autoscaling features than the purely CPU-utilization cloudwatch trigger mechanism used in this post. If you want to follow this post, simply consider replacing the cloudwatch-triggers with the AWS native managed scaling services that are now offered for ECS.
