Posted On: Jan 4, 2022

Today, HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) launched new clusters and task definitions creation workflows in the new management console. Customers can now use the new simplified workflows that provide flexible defaults and allow for configuration of observability features for container applications.

The new console experience allows for easy creation of new auto scaling groups that are designed to launch HAQM EC2 instances and register them to new HAQM ECS clusters automatically. The new task definitions creation experience removes the complexity of configuring container applications by providing flexible defaults and auto creating required task execution roles. You can now configure tasks to run different operating system/architecture (AWS Graviton, Windows, Linux) on both HAQM EC2 and AWS Fargate. This new task definition creation experience provides an option to enable metrics and traces collection, and allows users to export to X-Ray, HAQM CloudWatch and HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus.

This new experience is available on the HAQM ECS console. Customers can switch to the classic console experience for any unsupported features in the new console.

To get started, review HAQM ECS documentation for creating a new cluster, creating a new task definition, and switching to the new HAQM ECS console.