Mount file from S3 to ECS Fargate

Mounting an Amazon S3 bucket directly to an ECS Fargate container is not supported natively, as Fargate containers do not have direct access to mount volumes like EC2 instances do. However, you can access S3 data from your Fargate tasks using AWS SDKs or the AWS CLI by granting appropriate permissions to your Fargate tasks.

as an alternative, you can try AppConfig https://docs.aws.amazon.com/appconfig/latest/userguide/appconfig-integration-containers-agent.html

or SSM Parameter Store https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/secrets-envvar-ssm-paramstore.html

or EFS (not the cost-effective solution) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/tutorial-efs-volumes.html

Hi,

You may want to try rclone: https://rclone.org/

It seems to run in containers: https://samjenkins.com/rclone-docker-setup/

I have personally not used it with Docker images but successfully on Linux and Windows instances where I needed to access files on S3 and when I was wanted to avoid complex setups.

Best,

Didier

Here are my two cents. You can use the efsVolumeConfiguration in the task definition.

• Create an EFS file system and note the file system ID.
• Create an IAM role that allows ECS tasks to access the EFS file system.
• In the task definition, add an efsVolumeConfiguration with the file system ID.
• Mount the EFS volume to the container with the containerDefinitions->mountPoints specifying the source path as the file in EFS and the destination path within the container. The file will be available at the destination path within the container. Any changes to the file on the container will be reflected on EFS and vice versa. This allows mounting a single file from EFS rather than the entire directory, avoiding copying unnecessary files to the container. The EFS file system acts as the source for the file.