Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 instance store

Amazon ECS Managed Instances

Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 instance store volumes as a data volume option for container workloads. This feature reduces storage costs and accelerates I/O performance for latency-sensitive workloads by leveraging instance store volumes instead of provisioning an Amazon EBS data volume.

You can enable local storage by configuring a custom ECS Managed Instances capacity provider and selecting the desired Amazon EC2 instance types that include instance store volumes. When an instance lacks instance store volumes or when local storage is disabled, Amazon ECS automatically provisions an Amazon EBS data volume.

Support for instance store is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Amazon ECS Managed Instances is available.

What to do

• Configure a custom ECS Managed Instances capacity provider.
• Select Amazon EC2 instance types with instance store volumes.
• Enable local storage for your container workloads.

Source: AWS release notes

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