Implement Amazon ECS Anywhere enhanced workload resilience in disconnected scenarios

Introduction

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere is a feature of Amazon ECS that lets you run and manage container workloads on your infrastructure. This feature helps you meet compliance requirements and scale your business without sacrificing your on-premises investments.

When extending Amazon ECS to customer-managed infrastructure, external instances are registered to a managed Amazon ECS cluster hosted in an AWS Region. External instances are compute resources (i.e., hosts) external to an AWS region where Amazon ECS can schedule tasks to run. External instances are typically an on-premises server or virtual machine (VM).

Amazon ECS Anywhere currently supports operation in deployment scenarios where there’s consistent and reliable network connectivity between external instances and the Amazon ECS cluster. Amazon ECS monitors for errors or failures that occur to managed containers running on external instances, and restarts any containers that have stopped due to an …