Container Platform Best Practices: Running Your App
Before you run an application using Amazon Elastic Container Service, make sure that you understand how the various aspects of your application work with features in Amazon ECS.
Amazon ECS Task Lifecycle
When a task is started, either manually or as part of a service, it can pass through several states before it finishes on its own or is stopped manually. This is a visual representation of what an Amazon ECS task lifecycle looks like.
