Amazon ECS Linux container instance management

When you use EC2 instances for your Amazon ECS workloads, you are responsible for maintaing the instances

Management procedures

• Launching a container instance
• Bootstrapping Linux container instances
• Configuring container instances to receive Spot Instance notices
• Running a script when you launch a container instance
• Increasing Amazon ECS Linux container instance network interfaces
• Reserving container instance memory
• Manage container instances remotely
• Using an HTTP proxy for Linux container instances
• Configuring pre-initialized instances for your Auto Scaling group
• Updating the Amazon ECS container agent

Each Amazon ECS container agent version supports a different feature set and provides bug fixes from previous versions. When possible, we always recommend using the latest version of the Amazon ECS container agent. To update your container agent to the latest version, see Updating the Amazon ECS container agent.

To see which features and enhancements are included with each agent release, see https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/releases.

Important

The minimum Docker version for reliable metrics is Docker version v20.10.13 and newer, which is included in Amazon ECS-optimized AMI 20220607 and newer.

Amazon ECS agent versions 1.20.0 and newer have deprecated support for Docker versions older than 1.9.0.