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Amazon Elastic Container Service

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Amazon ECS Agent
The Amazon ECS container agent allows container instances to connect to your cluster. The Amazon ECS container agent is included in the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI, but you can also install it on any EC2 instance that supports the Amazon ECS specification.

Amazon ECS RPM
The Amazon EC2 Container Service RPM is software developed to support the Amazon ECS Container Agent.

Amazon ECS CNI Plugins
A collection of Container Network Interface (CNI) Plugins used by the Amazon ECS Agent to configure network namespace of containers with Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs).

Reference architectures

Java Microservices Deployed on ECS

Node.js Microservices Deployed on ECS

NGINX Reverse Proxy on Amazon ECS

Service Discovery for Amazon ECS

Canary Deployments on Amazon ECS

MXNet Predict Function on Amazon ECS 

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