Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances

Amazon ECS Managed Instances Launch

AWS has launched Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Managed Instances, a fully managed compute option to reduce infrastructure management overhead. It provides full EC2 capabilities, dynamically scales instances, and optimizes task placement to lower costs. Regular security patching is initiated every 14 days, with the option to schedule patching within maintenance windows.

ECS Managed Instances are available in six regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Dublin), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). You can enable it in a new or existing ECS cluster via the AWS Console, ECS MCP Server, or infrastructure-as-code tools. Charges apply for compute management and regular EC2 costs.

What to do

• Enable ECS Managed Instances in your ECS cluster.
• Schedule security patching within maintenance windows.
• Monitor costs for compute management and EC2 usage.

Source: AWS release notes