Deep Dive: Amazon ECS Managed Instances provisioning and optimization

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances is a fully managed compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while providing customers access to a broad suite of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capabilities, including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and leverage advanced security and observability configurations. By offloading operations to Amazon Web Service (AWS), ECS Managed Instances helps customers get started quickly, reduces total cost of ownership, and frees your teams to focus on building applications that drive innovation.

This blog post dives into how ECS Managed Instances automatically provisions and optimizes EC2 instances, balancing high availability with cost efficiency for your workloads.

Amazon ECS Managed Instances Capacity Provider

Within Amazon ECS, capacity providers (CPs) are the interface through which you define compute capacity for your workloads. Your ECS clusters …