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# Services

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## Service load balancing

* **Note**\
  When you use tasks sets, all the tasks in the set must all be configured to use Elastic Load Balancing or to not use Elastic Load Balancing.

## Service throttle logic

* **Important**\
  Tasks that are stopped after they reach the `RUNNING` state don't start the throttle logic or the associated service event message. For example, assume that failed Elastic Load Balancing health checks for a service cause a task to be flagged as unhealthy, and Amazon ECS deregisters it and stops the task. At this point, the tasks aren't throttled. Even if a task's container command immediately exits with a non-zero exit code, the task already moved to the `RUNNING` state. Tasks that fail immediately because command errors don't cause the throttle or the service event message.


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