intermediate~2.5h
ECS Fundamentals: Clusters, Tasks & Services
Amazon ECS's core building blocks — clusters, task definitions, tasks, and services — and the Fargate-vs-EC2 launch type decision that shapes how much infrastructure you manage.
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- •Explain what a cluster, task definition, task, and service each represent in ECS, and how they relate
- •Choose between the Fargate and EC2 launch types for a given workload and justify the choice
- •Trace what happens when a task fails its health check in an ECS service
- •Explain the role of ECS Anywhere for hybrid/on-premises container workloads
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