Change the capacity of your Lightsail container service
The capacity of your Amazon Lightsail container service is made up of its scale and power. The scale specifies the number of compute nodes in your container service, and the power specifies the memory and vCPUs of each node in your service. You pick the scale based on the number of nodes you want powering your service for better availability and higher capacity
By following the procedure in this guide, you can dynamically increase the power and scale of your container service at any time without any down-time if you find that it's under-provisioned, or decrease it if you find that it's over-provisioned. Lightsail automatically manages the capacity change along with your current deployment.
Note
If you create a new deployment, then the existing utilization metrics of your container service will disappear, and only metrics for the new current deployment will be shown.
For more information about container services, see Container services.
Change the capacity of your container service
Complete the following procedure to change the capacity of your Lightsail container service.
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Sign in to the Lightsail console
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On the Lightsail home page, choose the Containers tab.
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Choose the name of the container service for which you want to change the capacity.
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On the container service management page, choose the Capacity tab.
The current power, scale, and monthly price of your container service is displayed in the Capacity page.
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Choose Change capacity to change the power and scale to something else.
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On the confirmation prompt that appears, choose Yes, continue to acknowledge that changing the capacity of your container service will re-deploy the current deployment.
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Choose the new power and scale of your container service.
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Choose Yes, apply to apply the new capacity to your container service.
The status of your container service changes to Updating. After a few moments, the status of your service changes to Enabled, and it begins operating under its new capacity.
