Amazon ECS Resources

Documentation

AWS Developer Guide

API Reference

AWS CLI Reference

AWS Copilot

Whitepaper: Running Containerized Microservices on AWS

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Amazon ECS Workshop

Code repositories

AWS Copilot

The AWS Copilot command line interface (CLI) commands simplify building, releasing, and operating production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS from a local development environment.

Amazon ECS Agent

The Amazon ECS container agent allows container instances to connect to your cluster. The Amazon ECS container agent is included in the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI, but you can also install it on any EC2 instance that supports the Amazon ECS specification.

Amazon ECS RPM

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Container Service RPM is software developed to support the Amazon ECS Container Agent.

Amazon ECS CNI Plugins

A collection of Container Network Interface (CNI) Plugins used by the Amazon ECS Agent to configure network namespace of containers with Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs).

Amazon ECS AMI Build Scripts

Packer recipes for building the official ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMIs.

Webinars and videos

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Technical Talks

Hybrid deployments at scale with Amazon ECS-A (20:11)

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Technical Talks

Build event-driven services with serverless containers (33:03)

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Your first container in the cloud (Basics and benefits of containers) (45:57)

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Reduce ops & infrastructure costs with Amazon ECS (53:49)

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Build your app easily & efficiently with serverless containers (44:04)

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Run a hybrid cloud environment at the edge with Amazon ECS-A (52:21)

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A close look at AWS Fargate and AWS App Runner (36:31)

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Scaling containers from one user to millions (48:51)

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Blog posts

Extending a serverless, event-driven architecture to existing container workloads

Optimize cost for container workloads with ECS capacity providers and EC2 Spot Instances

Migrate cron jobs to event-driven architectures using Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon EventBridge

Announcing pull through cache for registry.k8s.io in Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Implementing a pub/sub architecture with AWS Copilot

Migrate existing Amazon ECS services from service discovery to Amazon ECS Service Connect

Announcing Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion

Architecture evolution: From zero to future-proof architecture at home24

Configuring KMS encryption at rest on ECR repositories with ECR replication

How to rapidly scale your application with ALB on EKS (without losing traffic)

Monitoring the Amazon ECS Agent

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