Schedule a containerized cron job using Amazon ECS and AWS Copilot
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cron is a command line tool and scheduling system built into Unix-like operating systems, to help you schedule commands to run periodically. You can schedule commands to run on on an interval, or at fixed dates and times.
Setup a background batch job on a cron schedule. It will be run in AWS Fargate by Amazon ECS. Pattern is setup using AWS Copilot.
Background worker that gets jobs from an SQS queue
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Background workers are a good way to decouple the fast, synchronous work that you need to do immediately from the slower and heavier work that can be done asychronously. Background workers allow you to absorb spikes of incoming workload and do processing gradually in the background. They spread workload over available computing resources more efficiently and cost effectively.
Use AWS Copilot to deploy a serverless worker container in AWS Fargate that does jobs off an SQS queue.
Deploy Jupyter notebook container with Amazon ECS
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Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. It is popular for machine learning and as an IDE for developing in multiple programming languages. JupyterLab is the latest version of Juypter notebook, with a more IDE like experience, and modular, extendable design.
How to use Amazon ECS and CloudFormation to run a Jupyter notebook container for training machine learning models
Large sized AWS VPC for an Amazon ECS cluster
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gives you full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security.
The recommended way to configure networking for containers in a Amazon ECS cluster is using VPC networking mode. In this mode ECS gives each task that you start it’s own unique private IP address in your VPC. There are significant benefits to this, such as the ability to give your tasks VPC security groups that allow you granular control over container to container communication, even when tasks are running colocated on the same EC2 instance. Additionally, when deploying containers using AWS Fargate you are required to use the VPC networking mode.
Reusable CloudFormation pattern for deploying a large VPC capable of hosting thousands of container tasks, with internet access.
Split web traffic between Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate
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Amazon ECS can orchestrate your application across a range of different capacity types. In this pattern you will learn how to use Amazon ECS to setup an Application Load Balancer that distributes traffic across both Amazon EC2 capacity, and AWS Fargate capacity.
CloudFormation example of how to setup an Application Load Balancer that distributes web traffic across an ECS service running on both EC2 and Fargate.
Service to service communication with AWS Copilot
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AWS Copilot is the official command line tool for Amazon ECS. It helps you to build and deploy your containers using production ready patterns curated by the AWS team.