aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 18
- age_days: 4290
- days_rel: 16
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 38
Adoption not part of the score
2178 stars · 658 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
The Amazon ECS Container Agent manages containers on EC2 instances on behalf of Amazon Elastic Container Service, handling task lifecycle, IAM roles, and networking. It ships with ecs-init, a systemd service that keeps the agent running, packaged as deb/rpm or a Docker image.
Use cases
- run ECS tasks on my own EC2 instances
- manage docker containers on behalf of Amazon ECS
- enable IAM roles for ECS tasks on an instance
- install the ECS agent on a non-Amazon Linux AMI
- run the ECS agent in a Docker container
- support awsvpc networking mode with CNI plugins
When to choose
- you operate EC2 instances registered to Amazon ECS clusters
- you need the official, AWS-maintained agent for ECS task management
- you want ecs-init systemd integration for agent reliability
When to avoid
- you are not using Amazon ECS or AWS
- you need a general-purpose container orchestrator like Kubernetes
- you run containers on non-Linux platforms
Facets
service · maturity active
container-orchestration deployment cloud monitoring cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code go self-hosted aws ecs container-agent ecs-init systemd docker containers devops linux
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent · fetched 2026-08-28 · 603eb496fb2e
- homepage: http://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1e22dc736231
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started?nc2=h_dsc_aa_gs · fetched 2026-08-29 · f35fd0664950
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure?nc2=h_dsc_aa_gi · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79a446e5fbd1
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/agent-toolkit-for-aws?nc2=h_dsc_ex_s5 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3cc21b596f92
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing?nc2=h_pr_hub · fetched 2026-08-29 · e2abd01d7981
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans?nc2=h_pr_sp · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9ff3c7ad93e0
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing?nc2=h_pr_s3 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 97bbf99c3793
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing?nc2=h_pr_br · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4ccc538a3696
- site_page: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing?nc2=h_pr_rds · fetched 2026-08-29 · 538280f30c8a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| aws/amazon-ecs-agent | main | 99 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="aws/amazon-ecs-agent")
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