AWS CLI

ECS Commands

Run containers on AWS with ECS. Learn to manage clusters, services, and task definitions for containerized applications.

7 commands

Pro Tips

Use Fargate for serverless containers - no EC2 instance management required.

Use 'aws ecs execute-command' to get a shell into running containers for debugging.

Common Mistakes

Task definition revisions add up. Clean up old revisions to avoid clutter.

Commands

List clusters

$ aws ecs list-clusters

List all ECS clusters.

List services

$ aws ecs list-services --cluster mycluster

List services in cluster.

Describe service

$ aws ecs describe-services --cluster mycluster --services myservice

Get service details.

Force deployment

$ aws ecs update-service --cluster mycluster --service myservice --force-new-deployment

Force new deployment.

Scale service

$ aws ecs update-service --cluster mycluster --service myservice --desired-count 3

Change desired task count.

List tasks

$ aws ecs list-tasks --cluster mycluster --service myservice

List running tasks.

Execute command

$ aws ecs execute-command --cluster mycluster --task task-id --container container --interactive --command '/bin/sh'

Open shell in container.