# ResourceRequirement
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The type and amount of a resource to assign to a container. The supported resource types are GPUs and Elastic Inference accelerators. For more information, see [Working with GPUs on Amazon ECS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-gpu.html) or [Working with Amazon Elastic Inference on Amazon ECS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-inference.html) in the *Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide* 

## Contents
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 ** type **   <a name="ECS-Type-ResourceRequirement-type"></a>
The type of resource to assign to a container.   
Type: String  
Valid Values: `GPU | InferenceAccelerator`   
Required: Yes

 ** value **   <a name="ECS-Type-ResourceRequirement-value"></a>
The value for the specified resource type.  
When the type is `GPU`, the value is the number of physical `GPUs` the Amazon ECS container agent reserves for the container. The number of GPUs that's reserved for all containers in a task can't exceed the number of available GPUs on the container instance that the task is launched on.  
When the type is `InferenceAccelerator`, the `value` matches the `deviceName` for an [InferenceAccelerator](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_InferenceAccelerator.html) specified in a task definition.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/ecs-2014-11-13/ResourceRequirement) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/ecs-2014-11-13/ResourceRequirement) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/ecs-2014-11-13/ResourceRequirement)