ECS Anywhere

• Amazon ECS Anywhere extends Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to run containers on-premises.

• Allows management of container workloads outside the AWS cloud using the ECS control plane.

• Supports running ECS tasks on customer-managed infrastructure such as bare metal or virtual machines.

• Enables hybrid container deployments combining on-premises and cloud resources.

• Uses the same ECS APIs and tooling for consistent container orchestration.

• Provides agent software to register and manage on-premises servers as ECS container instances.

• Supports EC2 launch type tasks on on-premises infrastructure.

• Integrates with AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and logging of on-premises containers.

• Enables centralized management of container workloads from a single ECS control plane.

• Supports security best practices including IAM roles and AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

• Simplifies container migration between on-premises and AWS cloud environments.

• Supports Docker container images stored in Amazon ECR or other container registries.

• Allows scaling and scheduling of containers using ECS task definitions and services.

• Helps meet data residency and latency requirements by running containers locally.

• Provides cost-effective hybrid cloud architecture without requiring a full Kubernetes setup.