# Amazon ECS API reference
Amazon ECS API reference

In addition to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), Amazon ECS also provides an API. You can use the API to automate tasks for managing Amazon ECS resources. 
+ For a list of API operations by Amazon ECS resource, see [Actions by Amazon ECS resource](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/OperationList-query.html).
+ For an alphabetical list of API operations, see [Actions](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html).
+ For an alphabetical list of data types, see [Data types](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_Types.html).
+ For a list of common query parameters, see [Common parameters](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/CommonParameters.html).
+ For descriptions of the error codes, see [Common errors](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/CommonErrors.html).

For more information about the Amazon CLI, see [Amazon Command Line Interface reference for Amazon ECS](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/reference/ecs/index.html).