AWS CloudFormation ECS

Create production-ready container infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation templates. This skill covers ECS clusters, services, task definitions, container configurations, scaling, service discovery, load balancing, and blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• Creating new ECS clusters with CloudFormation
• Defining task definitions for container workloads
• Configuring ECS services with deployment strategies
• Integrating ECS with Application Load Balancer
• Implementing auto scaling for ECS services
• Configuring service discovery with Cloud Map
• Implementing blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy
• Organizing templates with Parameters, Outputs, Mappings, Conditions
• Implementing cross-stack references with export/import
• Using Transform for macro and reuse

Template Structure