Amazon ECS

Elastic Container Service (ECS) launched in December 2014, as technology preview in November 2014, supports to run Docker containers in AWS as a Service and Auto Scaling since May 2016. For creating a ECS resource using AWS CloudFormation you can use AWS ECS Reference Architecture

• AWS ECS task definitions
• ECS Anywhere
• Launch type: AWS Fargate (Cloudformation: LaunchType": "FARGATE")
• Kubernetes container orchestration tool
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Related terms

• /etc/ecs/ecs.config
• AWS::ECS::Cluster, AWS::ECS::Service
• Terraform ECS
• Amazon Inspector
• AWS ECS Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS)
• Azure Container Instances
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus: ECS exporter

Activities

• Read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-availability-best-practices/
• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-ecs?tab=Votes

See also

• ecs-cli: [ ps | push | pull | images | license | logs | configure | up | down | registry-creds | compose | scale | --help ]
• AWS ECS tasks: aws ecs [ list-tasks | list-task-definitions | describe-task-definition | register-task-definition ], ContainerDefinitions, AmazonECSTaskExecutionRolePolicy
• AWS ECS: aws ecs [ create-cluster | create-service | update-service | list-clusters | list-services | describe-cluster | describe-services | describe-tasks | put-account-setting | execute-command | run-task ]
• 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

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