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 service: aws_ecs_service
• AWS ECS tasks: aws_ecs_task_definition
• AWS ECS deployments
• ECS Anywhere
• Launch type: AWS Fargate (Cloudformation: LaunchType": "FARGATE")
• ecs-cli
• AWS Copilot (Jul 2020)

Related terms

• /etc/ecs/ecs.config
• AWS::ECS::Cluster, AWS::ECS::Service
• Terraform ECS: aws_ecs_service, aws_ecs_task_definition, container_definitions
• Amazon Inspector
• AWS ECS Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS)
• Azure Container Instances
• Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Prometheus: ECS exporter
• Amazon ECS Agent
• OpenTelemetry (Otel)
• AWS Proton
• Amazon ECS Service Connect
• Using service-linked roles for Amazon ECS: AWSServiceRoleForECS
• IAM roles for Amazon ECS

Activities

• Read ECS availability best practices: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ecs-availability-best-practices/
• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-ecs?tab=Votes
• Lear how to restart a service: aws ecs update-service --cluster your_cluster_name --service your_service-name --force-new-deployment
• How do I allow Amazon ECS tasks to pull images from an Amazon ECR image repository?, execution_role_arn
• How can I pass secrets or sensitive information securely to containers in an Amazon ECS task?
• Send Amazon ECS logs to CloudWatch

News

• Feb 2023 Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion
• Mar 2021 Using Amazon ECS Exec to access your containers on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2
• Jul 2019 Multiple load balancer target groups per ECS service https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/amazon-ecs-services-now-support-multiple-load-balancer-target-groups/

See also

• Terraform ECS: module, resources: aws_ecs_cluster, aws_ecs_service: task definition, aws_ecs_task_definition: container_definitions
• 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, Provisioning
• 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, Fargate Spot, 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, requiresAttributes

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