Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon ECS Service Connect

Now supports seamless communication between services residing in different AWS accounts through integration with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). This enhancement simplifies resource sharing, reduces duplication, and promotes consistent service-to-service communication across environments for organizations with multi-account architectures.

Amazon ECS Service Connect leverages AWS Cloud Map namespaces for storing information about ECS services and tasks. To enable seamless cross-account communication between Amazon ECS Service Connect services, you can now share the underlying AWS Cloud Map namespaces using AWS RAM with individual AWS accounts, specific Organizational Units (OUs), or your entire AWS Organization.

What to do

• Create a resource share in AWS RAM
• Add the namespaces you want to share
• Specify the principals (accounts, OUs, or the organization) that should have access

This feature is available with both Fargate and EC2 launch modes in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions via the AWS Management Console, API, SDK, CLI, and CloudFormation. To learn more, please refer to the Amazon ECS Service Connect documentation.

Source: AWS release notes

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