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[ECS] : Registration Delay for addition in Target Group

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**Tell us about your request**
What do you want us to build?
Adding support for specifying a delay before registering tasks in Target Group (registration_delay)

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
This could be Fargate, ECS, EKS, ECR

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
Target Group starts making healthchecks from the moment target is registered. Hence even if service has HealthCheckGracePeriod Confifgured, it is possible that target is marked Unhealthy at Target group and UnhealthyHost Count metric is updated. The alerting based on UnhealthyHosts gets triggered and creates false alerts in systems. This even affects when user is back-tracking issues and has to co-relate unhealthy host events with container restarts or deployments.

Adding registration delay will help us reduce unnecessary noise in system

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Research direction

This is a public AWS containers roadmap request rather than a repository implementation task; no files, tests, or entry points are mentioned. Start by reviewing the requested Target Group behavior and its stated ECS, Fargate, EKS, and ECR scope. Done means AWS supports a configurable registration delay before targets are registered and the described false unhealthy-host alerts are reduced.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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