AWS ECS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. ECS allows you to run and scale Docker containers on AWS infrastructure without needing to manage the underlying hardware or software, making it easier to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications. It integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, supports both serverless (AWS Fargate) and server-based (EC2) compute options, and provides robust security, networking, and monitoring capabilities.

In Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS), an ECS task is a running instance of a task definition. Tasks use case is ideal for one-time or short-lived jobs. For example:

• Batch Jobs: Suitable for batch processing, data transformations, and other workloads that complete after a certain period. 
• Task Scheduling: Useful for scheduled tasks, such as cron jobs, where you need to run a task at specific intervals.
• Manual Execution: Good for tasks that you want to run on-demand or manually trigger through an event or user action. 

This integration provides the capability to run ECS Tasks allowing the above use-cases to be fulfilled through UAC, where UAC has the role of an orchestrator.

Key Features

• Run AWS ECS Tasks.
• Stop AWS ECS Tasks.
• Capability to run and stop tasks with custom configurations and environment variables.
• Capability to run with proxies.