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Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service

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How to create an AMI hardening pipeline and automate updates to your ECS instance fleet

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a comprehensive managed container orchestrator that simplifies the deployment, maintenance, and scalability of container-based applications. With Amazon ECS, you can deploy your containerized application as a standalone task, or run a task as part of a service in your cluster. The Amazon ECS infrastructure for tasks includes Amazon […]

Security considerations for running containers on Amazon ECS

August 1, 2025: This post was updated to clarify the security boundaries between containers and instances. July 9, 2025: This post was updated to clarify security boundaries in Amazon ECS. January 11, 2024: We’ve updated this post to include information about Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for Amazon ECS clusters. If you’re looking to further enhance […]