Scaling Spring Boot APIs on AWS Infrastructure

A deep dive into deploying, auto-scaling, and optimizing Spring Boot microservices on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS).

Deploying Java applications at scale requires careful design of container resources, auto-scaling policies, and database connection pooling. In this article, we look at how to run Spring Boot applications efficiently on AWS ECS Fargate, configuring active health checks, using Kafka as our message broker, and routing traffic using Application Load Balancers.