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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🎓 Learning objectives

  • 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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container-fundamentals-orchestrationecs-networking-deploymenteks-kubernetes-on-awsauto-scaling-load-balancing

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