Containers-roadmap: [ECS [ALB Slow-Start]: Managed Load Balancer Slow Start Support for ECS Targets

[pavneeta]

Request for comment: please share your thoughts on this potential improvement to ECS:

Introduce a one click/command easier way to enable ALB slow start mode for ECS Service which allows the load balancer to linearly ramp-up the traffic to newly started ECS tasks. Users will be able to define a parameter ECS-Traffic-Slow-Start = “Enable” through the ECS/AWS-CLI or check a box in the console while setting up task definition to enable this feature.
Currently you can set-up your ECS tasks in such a way that allows you to warm-up traffic to your ECS tasks, but this workaround is complicated and does not solve for all use cases.

[jn1z]

I'm not certain the workaround works for any use cases, actually. Yes, Slow Start Support for ECS targets is crucial.