Question

What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)?

Answer 1

Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that allows you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

Example: Below is an example AWS CloudFormation template snippet to create an ECS service:

MyECSService:
  Type: AWS::ECS::Service
  Properties:
    Cluster: !Ref MyCluster
    DesiredCount: 2
    TaskDefinition: !Ref MyTaskDefinition
    LaunchType: EC2