aws-ecs-patterns: QueueProcessingFargateService should expose ScalableTaskCount
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Description
### Describe the feature
The high-level construct `QueueProcessingFargateService` [creates an autoscaling group](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/packages/%40aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/queue-processing-service-base.ts#L359) on behalf of the user. However, because only one such group can be created, this means that there's no way for a consumer of `QueueProcessingFargateService` to add policies to that group.
### Use Case
I'd like to add more autoscaling policies based on business logic. My only reprieve today is to extend `QueueProcessingFargateService` and override the protected `configureAutoScaling` [method](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/packages/%40aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/queue-processing-service-base.ts#L358), but this seems like an anti-pattern in CDK which favors composition over extension.
### Proposed Solution
1. Expose a new property in `QueueProcessingFargateService` with type [ScalableTaskCount](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_ecs.ScalableTaskCount.html) populated by the value created today in the link above (e.g. `const scalableTarget`).
2. (Optional) customers to bring their own ScalableTaskCount in `QueueProcessingFargateService`'s construct props.
### Other Information
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### Acknowledgements
- [X] I may be able to implement this feature request
- [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change
### CDK version used
2
### Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)
Linux
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/queue-processing-service-base.ts at configureAutoScaling and the scalableTarget created there. Read the QueueProcessingFargateService construct props and ScalableTaskCount API, then verify the public construct exposes the created target so consumers can add autoscaling policies; the optional bring-your-own target needs a design decision.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, typescript
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100