Posted On: Nov 10, 2021
HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) now provides customers enhanced visibility into the health of their compute infrastructure. Customers running containerized workloads using HAQM ECS on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) or on-premises with HAQM ECS Anywhere can now query the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the HAQM ECS API. This helps customers improve application resiliency.
Although rare, problems can arise with the host infrastructure or Docker runtime which can prevent new containers from being started and even affect containers that are already running. With today’s release, HAQM ECS automatically monitors the container runtime for responsiveness on customers’ behalf. Customers can use the ECS Describe-Instances API with the include Health Status option to view the health information for their HAQM ECS Tasks.
Customers can view the instance health status for all their HAQM ECS container instances running version 1.57.0 of the HAQM ECS container Agent or higher. This version is automatically available with version 20211103 of the HAQM ECS-optimized AMI. HAQM ECS is available in all public AWS regions. To learn more, please look at the documentation here.