"AWS recently announced Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new feature in ECS designed to simplify the deployment of containerized applications on EC2 instances. The service automatically manages instance provisioning, scaling, and maintenance, thereby reducing the operational overhead associated with maintaining container infrastructure. ECS Managed Instances supports a broad range of EC2 instance types and, by default, automatically selects the most cost-optimized EC2 instances for the specific workload."
"AWS handles infrastructure management, including provisioning, scaling, and security patching. Micah Walter, senior solutions architect at AWS, writes: This includes implementing regular security patches initiated every 14 days (due to instance connection draining, the actual lifetime of the instance may be longer), with the ability to schedule maintenance windows using Amazon EC2 event windows to minimize disruption to your applications."
"With the new ECS Managed Instances, operations teams can choose the instances used; with Fargate, they lack control over the underlying compute. On LinkedIn, Sebastien Allam, solution architect specialist at AWS, highlights another significant difference: ECS Fargate is for only 1 task. On managed instance you can do bin-packing of multiple task on an instance. Unlike Fargate you can also have access to the instance types of your choice, bare metal, GPUs.., and you can choose only specific types if needed by your workload."
Amazon ECS Managed Instances automates EC2 instance provisioning, scaling, maintenance, and security patching to reduce operational overhead for containerized applications. The feature supports a broad range of EC2 instance types and defaults to cost-optimized instance selection for workloads while allowing operators to specify instance types when needed. Regular security patches are initiated every 14 days with options to schedule maintenance windows using Amazon EC2 event windows to limit disruption. Managed Instances enable bin-packing of multiple tasks per instance and access to bare metal and GPU instances, offering greater control than serverless compute options like Fargate.
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