title: Scale AWS ECS Fargate up and down on specific time each day
body: <p>I have a ECS Fargate service setup, which need to scale-up to 2 extra tasks on working hours i.e 9am to 5pm, otherwise I only need 1 task running.</p>
  <p>I have tried <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/scheduled_tasks.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Scheduled tasks</a> but then I wont get to use my original ECS service with I use with &quot;Application Load balancer&quot;.</p>
  <p>I also tried ECS Service Auto scaling-'Step scaling' using a custom CloudWatch alarm. But I don't know any easy way to create a alarm to trigger on specific time, as ECS Step scaling does not accept EventBridge rule.</p>