Traditional Amazon ECS deployments on EC2 instances have a limitation on the number of Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) per instance. This restricts the number of tasks you can efficiently pack onto a single container instance, especially for microservices architectures with numerous lightweight tasks. Scaling your ECS cluster then requires more EC2 instances, increasing costs and management complexity.

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