ECS supports native integration with Amazon EBS volumes in GovCloud Regions

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Updates

ECS now supports mounting Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to containers in the AWS GovCloud Regions. This update facilitates the deployment of storage and data intensive applications such as ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads using serverless containers.

With EBS task attachment, ECS can provision, manage, and de-provision EBS Volumes with each new ECS Task launch. These volumes are automatically wired to containerized workloads. Customers can either have ECS format an empty volume or bring an EBS snapshot for ECS to use to create new volumes.

EBS task attachment is available in the AWS GovCloud Regions for EC2, Fargate, and Managed Instances launch types.

What to do

• Review the Amazon ECS Developer Guide for more information on using EBS volumes with ECS.

Source: AWS release notes

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