ECS Fargate OOM Kill Despite Reported Memory Headroom

Containers killed with exit code 137 (OOM) even when Datadog reports usage well below limits. Discrepancy between Datadog-reported metrics and actual container runtime memory accounting reveals hidden memory pressure from JVM GC, fragmentation, or unmeasured kernel overhead.

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