AWS re:Post Knowledge Center Spotlight: Amazon ECS

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This spotlight on Amazon ECS equips you with the skills and troubleshooting tips to get the most out of a scalable service.

Overview

The AWS re:Post Knowledge Center is your one-stop-shop for authoritative, up-to-date guidance on using AWS services. This month, we're highlighting Amazon ECS, a highly secure, reliable, and scalable container service.

Amazon ECS delivers the easiest way to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications at any scale on AWS. Whether you're new to Amazon ECS or an experienced user, the following Knowledge Center articles equip you with the skills and troubleshooting tips to get the most out of this scalable service.

Customize your configuration

With Amazon ECS, you can run and scale your container workloads across AWS Regions in the cloud, and on-premises. Learn how to understand and manage the elements of your configuration:

Manage your tasks

A task is the instantiation of a task definition (the blueprint for your application) within a cluster. Learn how to manage, configure, and troubleshoot your Amazon ECS tasks:

Scale your tasks

You can use automatic scaling to increase or decrease the desired number of tasks in your Amazon ECS service. Learn how to manage and troubleshoot scaling actions and configurations:

Manage access

Learn how to connect Amazon ECS to other AWS services, manage access to your tasks and services, set up cross-account access, and more:

Optimize your configuration

Identify best practices around security, cost, and performance for Amazon ECS:

Monitor and analyze your tasks and containers

You can monitor your Amazon ECS resources with readable, near real-time metrics. Learn how to analyze Amazon ECS with Amazon CloudWatch and identify opportunities to improve your configuration:

Troubleshoot tasks or containers that fail health checks

Health checks are commands that run locally on a container and validate application health and availability. Troubleshoot issues when your containers or tasks fail their health checks:

Troubleshooting errors

Issues in Amazon ECS occur for a variety of reasons. The following articles help you troubleshoot issues with tasks stuck in a state, deployment circuit breakers, target deregistration, and more:

Related information

Have more questions about Amazon ECS? Check out the re:Post Amazon ECS knowledge base or ask your own question to get guidance from the AWS community.