A Developer has an e-commerce API hosted on Amazon ECS. Variable and spiking demand on the application is causing order processing to take too long. The application processes Amazon SQS queues. The ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible metric spikes at very high values throughout the day, which cause Amazon CloudWatch alarm breaches. Other ECS metrics for the API containers are well within limits. What can the Developer implement to improve performance while keeping costs low?
A) Target tracking scaling policy
B) Docker Swarm
C) Service scheduler
D) Step scaling policy

Question

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A Step scaling policy can adjust the number of ECS tasks based on the SQS queue length, allowing the application to handle spikes in demand efficiently while keeping costs low by scaling down when demand decreases.

A Developer Has an E-Commerce API Hosted on Amazon ECS