aws-containers/amazon-ecs-exec-checker

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1012 stars · 155 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A shell script that validates whether your AWS CLI environment and Amazon ECS cluster/task are properly configured for ECS Exec. It calls various AWS APIs to run pre-flight checks and reports results color-coded as okay, recommended-to-fix, or blocking.

Use cases

• check if my ECS task is ready for ECS Exec
• debug why ecs execute-command fails on Fargate
• validate CLI environment before using ECS Exec
• verify IAM permissions and SSM agent for ECS Exec
• pre-flight validation of ECS Exec configuration
• check if Session Manager plugin is installed for ECS Exec

When to choose

• you are setting up ECS Exec for the first time and want to verify prerequisites
• ECS Exec is failing and you need to identify the misconfiguration
• you want a quick non-invasive audit of cluster, task, and CLI readiness

When to avoid

• you need continuous monitoring rather than one-time pre-flight checks
• you are not using Amazon ECS or ECS Exec
• you need a GUI or managed tool instead of a shell script

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

developer-tools cli monitoring cloud-computing windows cli aws ecs fargate ecs-exec shell-script preflight-checks validator ssm containers devops debugging linux macos

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