This cloudformation snippet will add auto scale to your existing cloudformation based ecs service.
To connect it to your service you may need to edit the folowing vars ServiceScalingTarget:
Service This is the name of the cloudformation block that defines your ecs service Ref: ContainerCluster This should pull in the ecs cluster name I define this in a param: ContainerCluster ApplicationAutoScalingRole: Type: AWS::IAM::Role Properties: AssumeRolePolicyDocument: Statement: - Effect: Allow Principal: Service: [application-autoscaling.