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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) in Amazon Web Services China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services China
Region availabilityHow Amazon ECS differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) in Amazon Web Services China

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS lets you launch and stop container-based applications with simple API calls, allows you to get the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features.

Region availability

Amazon Elastic Container Service is available in the following regions in China:

  • China (Beijing) Region

  • China (Ningxia) Region

How Amazon ECS differs

The following differences apply to Amazon Elastic Container Service:

  • When you use an external instance (ECS Anywhere) that runs Windows, run the following command on your on-premises server or virtual machine (VM) to download the installation script.

    Invoke-RestMethod -URI "https://amazon-ecs-agent.s3.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/ecs-anywhere-install.ps1" -OutFile "ecs-anywhere-install.ps1"

    For more information about registering external instances, see Registering an external instance to a cluster in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.

  • The following features are not available in the China (Ningxia) Region:

    • CodePipeline support

  • The following features are not available in the China (Ningxia) Region and China (Beijing) Region:

    • Using CloudWatch alarms to detect when a rolling update deployment has failed

    • Amazon ECS Anywhere when GPU’s are enabled

Documentation