Configuring an ECS service for Fargate

Now that you have defined an ECS task definition for Fargate, you can create an ECS service that will reference your ECS task definition and deploy one or more instances (ECS tasks) for your service. 

As you might expect, when configuring ECS services to support Fargate, there are some key considerations that you need to be aware of:

  • Launch type: You must specify Fargate as the launch type for any ECS service that you want to run using Fargate.
  • Platform version: AWS maintains different versions of the Fargate runtime or platform, which will evolve over time, and may at some point introduce breaking changes for your ECS services. You can optionally target a specific platform version for your ECS service, ...

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