Managing ECS workers with SQS queues

Terraform
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We have ECS tasks that pop messages off SQS queues, each task having its own queue. We’re managing our collection of tasks and their attributes with list type variables, like:

variable "tasks" {
  type = "list"
  default = [
    "task1",
    "task2"
...

then referencing individual items in the list like:

resource "aws_appautoscaling_policy" "scale_up" {
  count       = "${length(var.tasks)}"
  resource_id = "service/tasks/service-${element(var.tasks, count.index)}"
  ...

We have lists of scheduled tasks, EC2 launch-type tasks, Fargate launch-type tasks, tasks for specific clusters, outliers that require non-default memory, scaling minima, etc.

It’s a bear to manage all those lists. I’m sure there’s a better way.

Are you managing a similar ECS/SQS setup? How are you doing it?

Thanks!