Cloud Standard

Purpose

To ensure cost savings within ecs are maximised by utilising autoscaling.

Requirement

All non-prod accounts should utilise scheduled autoscaling to switch off tasks during non working hours.
For production environments services should look at autoscaling based on resource usage such as cpu or memory. Ideally this should be done through performance testing to ascertain minimum and maximum resource requirements.

Compliance

Environment	Compliance
Non-Prod	Scheduled auto scaling enabled to switch off tasks during non working hours.
Prod	Auto scaling based on resource usage to ensure cost effective use of resources.