New Amazon ECS console - Amazon Elastic Container Service
Configuration which is not available in the new console
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New Amazon ECS console

Welcome to the new and improved console experience.

While most of the classic console functionality is available in the new console, it is still a work in progress. Therefore the classic console will remain available to opt-in and you can toggle back to the classic console for the duration of your login session.

Configuration which is not available in the new console

The sections below describe when you need to use the classic console.

First run wizard

Although the first run wizard is not available, we have provided instructions on how to get started using the new console. For more information, see Getting started with Amazon ECS.

Clusters

You can use the Amazon CLI to configure the following cluster parameters:

For information about how to create a cluster using the Amazon CLI, see create-cluster in the Amazon Command Line Interface Reference.

  • Spot Instances - For the EC2 launch type, using Spot Instances for your cluster Auto Scaling group

  • Creating a new VPC on cluster creation - You must use existing VPCs and subnets when you create a cluster

Task definitions

You can use the JSON editor in the new console, or the Amazon CLI to configure the following task definition parameters:

For information about how to use the JSON editor, see Creating a task definition using the console.

For information about how to register the task definition using the Amazon CLI, see register-task-definition in the Amazon Command Line Interface Reference.

  • EXTERNAL lanuch type - for Amazon ECS Anywhere

  • FireLens customization

  • Update a service with the new task definition revision

Tasks

You can use the EventBridge Scheduler console or the Amazon CLI to configure scheduled tasks:

For information about how to use the EventBridge Scheduler console, see Scheduled tasks.

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Services

You must use Amazon CloudFormation or the Amazon Command Line Interface to deploy a service that uses any of the following parameters:

  • Blue/green deployments

  • Service Discovery - You can only view your Service Discovery configuration.

  • Tracking policy with a custom metric

  • Update Service - You cannot update the awsvpc network configuration and the health check grace period.

For information about how to create a service using the Amazon CLI, see create-service in the Amazon Command Line Interface Reference.

For information about how to create a service using Amazon CloudFormation, see AWS::ECS::Service in the Amazon CloudFormation User Guide.