Amazon ECS capacity providers

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/cluster-capacity-providers.html

• When you specify a capacity provider strategy, the number of capacity providers that can be specified is limited to 6

Capacity provider commands

• aws ecs create-capacity-provider
• aws ecs delete-capacity-provider
• aws ecs describe-capacity-providers
• aws ecs put-cluster-capacity-providers
• aws ecs update-capacity-provider

Related commands

• aws ecs describe-clusters --cluster mycluster | jq '.clusters[].defaultCapacityProviderStrategy'
• aws ecs create-service --cluster <cluster name> --service-name <your service name> --capacity-provider-strategy CapacityProvider=<provide name>

Role

• AWSEC2CapacityReservationFleetRolePolicy

Related

• The maximum number of capacity providers per cluster has been exceeded
• Auto Scaling group capacity providers and Fargate capacity providers
• --capacity-provider-strategy
• AWS ECS Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS)

New

• May 2022 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/05/amazon-ecs-capacity-provider-integration-auto-scaling-groups/
• Nov 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ecs-improved-capacity-providers-cluster-auto-scaling/

See also

• aws ecs [ create-capacity-provider | delete-capacity-provider | describe-capacity-providers | put-cluster-capacity-providers | update-capacity-provider ]
• Amazon ECS, Service, Tasks (Task overview), capacity providers, Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS), aws ecs, ecs-cli, ~/.ecs/config, AWS Copilot, AWS Fargate, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, /etc/ecs/ecs.config, Security group (SG), container agent, task definition, Amazon ECS events, best practices, Amazon ECS Exec Checker, Amazon ECS Agent, Service Connect, AWSServiceRoleForECS, Terraform ECS, AWS ECS Rolling deployments