Modifying Amazon ECS account settings - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Modifying Amazon ECS account settings

Modify your account settings to access Amazon ECS features.

The guardDutyActivate parameter is read-only in Amazon ECS and indicates whether Runtime Monitoring is turned on or off by your security administrator in your Amazon ECS account. GuardDuty controls this account setting on your behalf. For more information, see Protecting Amazon ECS workloads with Runtime Monitoring.

Important

The dualStackIPv6, fargateFIPSMode and the fargateTaskRetirementWaitPeriod account settings can only be viewed or changed using the Amazon CLI.

  1. Open the console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ecs/v2.

  2. In the navigation bar at the top, select the Region for which to view your account settings.

  3. In the navigation page, choose Account Settings.

  4. Choose Update.

  5. (Optional) To increase or decrease the number of tasks that you can run in the awsvpc network mode for each EC2 instance, under AWSVPC Trunking, select AWSVPC Trunking.

  6. (Optional) To use, or stop using CloudWatch Container Insights by default for clusters, under CloudWatch Container Insights observability, choose one of the following options:

    • To use Container Insights with enhanced observability, choose Container Insights with enhanced observability.

    • To use Container Insights, choose Container Insights.

    • To stop using Container Insights, choose Turned off.

  7. (Optional) To enable or disable tagging authorization, under Resource Tagging Authorization, select or clear Resource Tagging Authorization.

  8. (Optional) To configure a default log driver mode for when a log delivery mode isn't defined in a container's logConfiguration, under Default log driver mode, choose one of the following options:

    • To set the default log driver mode as blocking, choose Blocking.

    • To set the default log driver mode as non-blocking, choose Non-blocking.

  9. Choose Save changes.

  10. On the confirmation screen, choose Confirm to save the selection.

Next steps

If you turned on Container Insights with enhanced observability or Container Insights, you can optionally update your existing clusters to use the feature. For more information, see Updating an Amazon ECS cluster.