# Amazon ECS Service Connect API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-service-connect-api/  
**Provider:** Amazon ECS — https://apis.io/providers/amazon-ecs/  
**Base URL:** https://ecs.amazonaws.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-connect.html

Amazon ECS Service Connect API is one of 13 APIs that [Amazon ECS](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-ecs/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Containers, Microservices, Networking, Service Discovery, and Service Mesh. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, an engineering blog, and a GitHub repository.

Amazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configuration, building both service discovery and a service mesh for connecting services within and across clusters and VPCs.

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-connect.html
- **APIReference** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_ServiceConnectConfiguration.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-connect-concepts.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-connect-concepts-deploy.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/create-service-connect.html
- **Blog** — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ecs-service-connect-enabling-easy-communication-between-microservices/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-service-connect-agent
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-ecs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Amazon ECS APIs (12)

- [Amazon ECS Anywhere API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-anywhere-api/)
- [AWS Copilot CLI](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/aws-copilot-cli/)
- [Amazon ECS Capacity Providers API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-capacity-providers-api/)
- [Amazon ECS Clusters API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-clusters-api/)
- [Amazon ECS Container Instances API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-container-instances-api/)
- [Amazon ECS Task Definitions API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-task-definitions-api/)
- [Amazon ECS Tasks API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-tasks-api/)
- [Amazon ECS #X Amz Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.CreateService API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-x-amz-target-amazonec2containerservicev20141113-createservice-api/)
- [Amazon ECS #X Amz Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.DeleteService API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-x-amz-target-amazonec2containerservicev20141113-deleteservice-api/)
- [Amazon ECS #X Amz Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.DescribeServices API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-x-amz-target-amazonec2containerservicev20141113-describeservices-api/)
- [Amazon ECS #X Amz Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.ListServices API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-x-amz-target-amazonec2containerservicev20141113-listservices-api/)
- [Amazon ECS #X Amz Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.UpdateService API](https://apis.io/apis/amazon-ecs/amazon-ecs-x-amz-target-amazonec2containerservicev20141113-updateservice-api/)

## Tags

Containers, Microservices, Networking, Service Discovery, Service Mesh

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