https://autospotting.io/tags/task-density.htmlRecent content in Task-Density on AutoSpottingHugoenThu, 16 Jul 2026 21:31:38 +0300https://autospotting.io/blog/leanercloud/2023-06-28-maximized-task-density-ecs.htmlWed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://autospotting.io/blog/leanercloud/2023-06-28-maximized-task-density-ecs.html<h2 id="and-why-we-had-to-deploy-nat-gateways-in-our-public-subnets">And why we had to deploy NAT Gateways in our public subnets</h2> <p>June 28, 2023</p> <p><img src="https://autospotting.io/images/blog/leanercloud-content/maximized-task-density-ecs-cluster-avoiding-burstable-instances/image-2.png" alt="Illustration from: How we maximized task density on our ECS cluster by avoiding burstable instances" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </p> <p>As I&rsquo;ve mentioned in my previous posts, I&rsquo;ve been recently working with an AI startup to help them optimize their AWS costs.</p> <p>After quickly doing the basic things like converting EBS volumes to GP3 using <a href="https://leanercloud.com/ebs-optimizer?utm_source=leanercloud.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=how-we-maximized-task-density-on-our-ecs-cluster-by-avoiding-burstable-instances">EBSOptimizer</a>, right-sized and converted their RDS databases to Graviton and a few other low hanging fruits, the bulk of the work was about converting their individual instances running Docker-compose to ECS.</p>