# Container-based processing
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 **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.