Improving deployment visibility for Amazon ECS services

When deploying software, it’s critical to have visibility into all stages of the deployment process. Knowing the status of ongoing deployments, troubleshooting issues when things go wrong, and having an audit trail of past deployments are essential for ensuring a safe and reliable release process. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides enhanced observability features to address these needs. With service deployments and service revisions, you can gain deeper insights into your Amazon ECS-based application deployments.

In Amazon ECS, a service is a resource that runs long-running applications, where a group of identical tasks are deployed, managed, and scaled by Amazon ECS. When it’s time to release a new version of your software, Amazon ECS manages the deployment process, gradually replacing the old tasks with the new ones. Amazon ECS comes with built-in safeguards to facilitate safe software releases, such as circuit breaking, where Amazon ECS can be configured to …