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EC2 launch type for Amazon ECS

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EC2 launch type for Amazon ECS - Amazon Elastic Container Service

The EC2 launch type is suitable for large workloads that must be price optimized.

When considering how to model task definitions and services using the EC2 launch type, we recommend that you consider what processes must run together and how you might go about scaling each component.

As an example, suppose that an application consists of the following components:

  • A frontend service that displays information on a webpage

  • A backend service that provides APIs for the frontend service

  • A data store

For this example, create task definitions that group the containers that are used for a common purpose together. Separate the different components into multiple and separate task definitions. The following example cluster has three container instances that are running three front-end service containers, two backend service containers, and one data store service container.

You can group related containers in a task definition, such as linked containers that must be run together. For example, add a log streaming container to your front-end service and include it in the same task definition.

After you have your task definitions, you can create services from them to maintain the availability of your desired tasks. For more information, see Creating an Amazon ECS service using the console. In your services, you can associate containers with Elastic Load Balancing load balancers. For more information, see Use load balancing to distribute Amazon ECS service traffic. When your application requirements change, you can update your services to scale the number of desired tasks up or down. Or, you can update your services to deploy newer versions of the containers in your tasks. For more information, see Updating an Amazon ECS service using the console.

Application architecture example with three instances. Instance 1 has a Front-end service container and a database service container. Instance 2 and Instance 3 have a front-end service container and a back-end service container.
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