Amazon ECS Autoscaling Done Right

with queue time instead of CPU or memory

Judoscale automatically scales your ECS tasks (web and worker services) so you can save money and stop worrying about downtime.
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Explore for yourself in our sandbox app →

“The first step to a scalable web service is automatic autoscaling. Without autoscaling, you're just waiting for a flash sale, social media post, or other "white swan" event to take down your site at just the wrong moment. ”

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Nate Berkopec
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance

Queue time, not CPU or memory

Amazon ECS autoscaling—based on CPU and memory—is inconsistent and unreliable. Queue time is the true measure of task capacity, and Judoscale is the only autoscaler for ECS that uses it.

Learn more about request queue time →
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Web services and background tasks

Queue time isn’t just for web services. Judoscale also uses queue latency to autoscale your background tasks, ensuring your job queues never back up.

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Faster and more reliable than Amazon ECS’s autoscaler

A capacity issue needs to trigger autoscaling as quickly as possible, and Judoscale is the fastest autoscaler available. Our autoscaling algorithm runs every 10 seconds, ensuring your app scales up before users notice an issue.

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Reduce your Amazon ECS compute costs

Your ECS tasks are probably overscaled, and Judoscale can help. Our autoscaling algorithm is more efficient than ECS’s, allowing you to scale down without sacrificing performance or peace of mind.

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Customize your autoscale behavior

Every app is different, and so Judoscale gives you complete control over how your app autoscales. You can scale by multiple tasks at a time and tweak the frequency of scaling. Each task is configured independently with a few simple sliders.

Explore the configs in our sandbox app →
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Still have questions?

Check out our docs for a whole lot more. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, send us an email!

  • What languages and frameworks does Judoscale support?

    We support many web frameworks and job/task queues for Ruby, Python, and NodeJS. See the full list in our docs.

  • What data can Judoscale access in my app?

    Our adapter libraries only collect queue-related metrics for requests and job queues along with basic process metadata. No actual request or job data is ever collected.

  • Can we have a call to see if Judoscale makes sense for my app?

    Sure, let’s talk! Use this link to book a call with us.

You guys are rock stars!! I think this is the 3rd time now that you've already had a solution ready to go to solve our problem. This is exactly what I was looking for!!

Matt Tarantino
Dev Ops Tech Lead, TeePublic
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If I was the king of the world, I would make it illegal to horizontally scale based on execution time. Scale based on queue depths, people!

Nate Berkopec
The Complete Guide to Rails Performance
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Judoscale’s deep integration with Sidekiq queues let us easily tag which queues we wanted a faster response. We were able to tune our scaling sensitivity for exactly our usage pattern of intermittent batches of large jobs.

Michael Buckbee
Founder, Gently Used Domains
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Chameleon has been extremely stable thanks to Judoscale. We have very high spikes in traffic, and I don’t even have to think about it.

Brian Norton
Co-founder & CTO, Chameleon
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Request queue time is the single most important part of this. Scaling by CPU and memory consumption makes no sense—your server should have stable memory usage and nearly 100% CPU utilization.

Nate Matykiewicz
Senior Developer, Dwell
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Our servers now happily scale anywhere from 2 to 15 dynos, saving us thousands a month.

Sean Devine
CEO, XBE
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We’re really impressed by the simplicity and ease of use of Judoscale. We’ve gone from constant worries over site performance, to complete confidence in our configuration. What a great tool!

Christopher Batts
Co-Founder & CEO, Setyl
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