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Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Background

Getting Started

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. A couple of introductory pages:

AMI

Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2 AMI - costs money:

Usage

Register EC2 Instances

Register Amazon ECS Container Instances with Clusters in Private Subnets on AWS

How to register EC2 Instance to ECS cluster? on Stack Overflow

AWS CLI

run-task - detailed description

describe-tasks - detailed description