How Target capacity % is calculated in AWS ECS capacity provider

Question

While creating capacity provider in AWS ECS. the value Target capacity % we are filling, after crossing this value our cluster scale-in, but I am curious how this value of the current cluster is calculating and if I am want to check what is the current value of the cluster where can I check this. I have not found any data in cludwatch side.

Answer 1

See this blog post and related documentation.

You can see the "Capacity Provider Reservation" value in CloudWatch Metrics under "AWS/ECS/ManagedScaling"