Last night, I want to play with AWS ECS Service. I wrote a terraform code to deploy everything at the same time. The terraform is creating all of the resources for run ECS in different VPC and isolated from your other resources.
I used nginx:alpine docker image for this project but if you need, you can modify or change the terraform and implement it for your needs.
What is AWS ECS?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service. Customers use ECS to run their most sensitive and mission-critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability.
ECS is a great choice to run containers for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your ECS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, ECS is used extensively within Amazon to power services such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Batch, Amazon Lex, and Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, ensuring ECS is tested extensively for security, reliability, and availability.
Additionally, because ECS has been a foundational pillar for key Amazon services, it can natively integrate with other services such as Amazon Route 53, Secrets Manager, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon CloudWatch providing you a familiar experience to deploy and scale your containers. ECS is also able to quickly integrate with other AWS services to bring new capabilities to ECS. For example, ECS allows your applications the flexibility to use a mix of Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate with Spot and On-Demand pricing options. ECS also integrates with AWS App Mesh, which is a service mesh, to bring rich observability, traffic controls, and security features to your applications. ECS has grown rapidly since launch and is currently launching 5X more containers every hour than EC2 launches instances.
Repository
You can check the repository via https://github.com/flightlesstux/aws-ecs-nginx-app and If you need, you can use the code to make deploy or understand how ECS is running.