Using the API for Amazon ECS

In addition to the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), Amazon ECS also provides an API. You can use the API to automate tasks for managing Amazon ECS resources.

For a list of API operations by Amazon ECS resource, see Actions by Amazon ECS resource.
For an alphabetical list of API operations, see Actions.
For an alphabetical list of data types, see Data types.
For a list of common query parameters, see Common parameters.
For descriptions of the error codes, see Common errors.

For more information about the AWS CLI, see AWS Command Line Interface reference for Amazon ECS.

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Handle service quotas and API throttling limits

Actions by Amazon ECS resource