How to create a service using the EC2 launch type

Question

Hi Team,

I have created an ECS cluster in AWS. I want to create a service using the EC2 launch type with AWS CLI. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

The following create-service example shows how to create a service called ecs-simple-service with a task that uses the EC2 launch type. The service uses the sleep360 task definition and it maintains 1 instantiation of the task.

$ aws ecs create-service \
    --cluster MyCluster \
    --service-name ecs-simple-service \
    --task-definition sleep360:2 \
    --desired-count 1