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ECS Fargate Container Deployment

April 5, 2026

ECS with Fargate Serverless Containers

Run Docker containers without managing EC2 clusters.

Fargate Task Definition

{
  "family": "myapp",
  "networkMode": "awsvpc",
  "cpu": "256",
  "memory": "512",
  "containerDefinitions": [{
    "name": "myapp",
    "image": "123456.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myapp:latest",
    "portMappings": [{"containerPort": 8080}]
  }]
}

Deployment Commands

  • aws ecs register-task-definition --cli-input-json file://task.json
  • aws ecs create-service --cluster default --service-name myapp
  • awsvpc networking mode required
  • ALB integration for HTTP traffic