Subscribing to Amazon ECS-optimized AMI update notifications

Important

The Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI is deprecated as of April 15, 2021. After that date, Amazon ECS will continue providing critical and important security updates for the AMI but will not add support for new features.

Important

For the Linux variants of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI, the Amazon SNS alert is only sent when there is a new Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI deployed. Generally when a new Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI is deployed, a new AMI for each of the other Linux variants of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI are deployed as well although there are not separate Amazon SNS alerts for them. For more information, see Amazon ECS-optimized AMI.

The Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs receive regular updates for Amazon ECS container agent changes, Docker version updates, and Windows or Linux kernel security updates. You can subscribe to the AMI update Amazon SNS topic for the Windows and Linux Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs to receive notifications when a new Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is available. Notifications are available in all formats that Amazon SNS supports.

Note

Your user account must have sns::subscribe IAM permissions to subscribe to an SNS topic.

You can subscribe an Amazon SQS queue to this notification topic, but you must use a topic ARN that is in the same Region as the Amazon SNS topic. For more information, see Subscribing an Amazon SQS Queue to an Amazon SNS Topic in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

You can also use an AWS Lambda function to trigger events when notifications are received. For more information, see Invoking Lambda functions using Amazon SNS notifications in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

Linux Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs

The Amazon SNS topic ARNs for the Linux variants of the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI for each region are shown below.

AWS Region	Amazon SNS Topic ARN
us-east-1	arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
us-east-2	arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
us-west-1	arn:aws:sns:us-west-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
us-west-2	arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-east-1	arn:aws:sns:ap-east-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-northeast-1	arn:aws:sns:ap-northeast-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-northeast-2	arn:aws:sns:ap-northeast-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-southeast-1	arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-southeast-2	arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ap-south-1	arn:aws:sns:ap-south-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
ca-central-1	arn:aws:sns:ca-central-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
eu-west-1	arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
eu-west-2	arn:aws:sns:eu-west-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
eu-west-3	arn:aws:sns:eu-west-3:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
eu-central-1	arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update
sa-east-1	arn:aws:sns:sa-east-1:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update

To subscribe to AMI update notification email in the AWS Management Console

1. Open the Amazon SNS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/sns/v3/home.

2. In the region list, choose the same Region as the topic ARN to which to subscribe. This example uses the us-west-2 Region.

3. In the left navigation pane, choose Subscriptions, Create subscription.

4. In the Create Subscription dialog box, for Topic ARN, paste the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux AMI update topic ARN: arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update.

5. For Protocol, choose Email. For Endpoint, type an email address that you can use to receive the notification.

6. Choose Create subscription.

7. In your email application, open the message from AWS Notifications and open the link to confirm your subscription.

   Your web browser displays a confirmation response from Amazon SNS.

To subscribe to AMI update notification email with the AWS CLI

1. Run the following command with the AWS CLI:

   aws sns --region us-west-2 subscribe --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:177427601217:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update --protocol email --notification-endpoint your_email@your_domain.com

2. In your email application, open the message from AWS Notifications and open the link to confirm your subscription.

   Your web browser displays a confirmation response from Amazon SNS.

Amazon SNS Message Format

An example AMI update notification message is shown below:

{
  "Type" : "Notification",
  "MessageId" : "e2534930-337d-5561-8636-1a2be5ba802e",
  "TopicArn" : "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:917786371007:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update",
  "Message" : "{\"ECSAgent\":{\"ReleaseVersion\":\"1.17.2\"},\"ECSAmis\":[{\"ReleaseVersion\":\"2017.09.j\",\"AgentVersion\":\"1.17.2\",\"ReleaseNotes\":\"This AMI includes the latest ECS agent 1.17.2\",\"OsType\":\"linux\",\"OperatingSystemName\":\"Amazon Linux\",\"Regions\":{\"ap-northeast-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-bb5f13dd\"},\"ap-northeast-2\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-3b19b455\"},\"ap-south-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-9e91cff1\"},\"ap-southeast-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-f88ade84\"},\"ap-southeast-2\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-a677b6c4\"},\"ca-central-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-db48cfbf\"},\"cn-north-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-ca508ca7\"},\"eu-central-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-3b7d1354\"},\"eu-west-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-64c4871d\"},\"eu-west-2\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-25f51242\"},\"eu-west-3\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-0356e07e\"},\"sa-east-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-da2c66b6\"},\"us-east-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-cad827b7\"},\"us-east-2\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-ef64528a\"},\"us-gov-west-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-cc3cb7ad\"},\"us-west-1\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-29b8b249\"},\"us-west-2\":{\"Name\":\"amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized\",\"ImageId\":\"ami-baa236c2\"}}}]}",
  "Timestamp" : "2018-03-09T00:25:43.483Z",
  "SignatureVersion" : "1",
  "Signature" : "XWox8GDGLRiCgDOXlo/fG9Lu/88P8S0FL6M6oQYOmUFzkucuhoblsdea3BjqdCHcWR7qdhMPQnLpN7y9iBrWVUqdAGJrukAI8athvAS+4AQD/V/QjrhsEnlj+GaiW+ozAu006X6GopOzFGnCtPMROjCMrMonjz7Hpv/8KRuMZR3pyQYm5d4wWB7xBPYhUMuLoZ1V8YFs55FMtgQV/YLhSYuEu0BP1GMtLQauxDkscOtPP/vjhGQLFx1Q9LTadcQiRHtNIBxWL87PSI+BVvkin6AL7PhksvdQ7FAgHfXsit+6p8GyOvKCqaeBG7HZhR1AbpyVka7JSNRO/6ssyrlj1g==",
  "SigningCertURL" : "https://sns.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/SimpleNotificationService-433026a4050d206028891664da859041.pem",
  "UnsubscribeURL" : "https://sns.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/?Action=Unsubscribe&SubscriptionArn=arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:917786371007:ecs-optimized-amazon-ami-update:8ad8798e-3bbf-4490-89b1-76136fca61dc"
}

The parsed Message value (with escaped quotes removed) is shown below:

{
  "ECSAgent": {
    "ReleaseVersion": "1.17.2"
  },
  "ECSAmis": [
    {
      "ReleaseVersion": "2017.09.j",
      "AgentVersion": "1.17.2",
      "ReleaseNotes": "This AMI includes the latest ECS agent 1.17.2",
      "OsType": "linux",
      "OperatingSystemName": "Amazon Linux",
      "Regions": {
        "ap-northeast-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-bb5f13dd"
        },
        "ap-northeast-2": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-3b19b455"
        },
        "ap-south-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-9e91cff1"
        },
        "ap-southeast-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-f88ade84"
        },
        "ap-southeast-2": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-a677b6c4"
        },
        "ca-central-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-db48cfbf"
        },
        "cn-north-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-ca508ca7"
        },
        "eu-central-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-3b7d1354"
        },
        "eu-west-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-64c4871d"
        },
        "eu-west-2": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-25f51242"
        },
        "eu-west-3": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-0356e07e"
        },
        "sa-east-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-da2c66b6"
        },
        "us-east-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-cad827b7"
        },
        "us-east-2": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-ef64528a"
        },
        "us-gov-west-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-cc3cb7ad"
        },
        "us-west-1": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-29b8b249"
        },
        "us-west-2": {
          "Name": "amzn-ami-2017.09.j-amazon-ecs-optimized",
          "ImageId": "ami-baa236c2"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Windows Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs

AWS provides two Amazon SNS topic ARNs for variants of the Windows Amazon ECS-optimized AMI. One topic sends update notifications when new Windows AMIs are released. The other topic sends notifications when previously released Windows AMIs are made private. For more information on subscribing to Windows AMI notifications, see Subscribing to Windows AMI notifications in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances.