Amazon ECS Task Definitions API

Operations for managing ECS task definitions

Business capability
IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 8

POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.RegisterTaskDefinition Amazon Ecs Register a New Task Definition #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.DeregisterTaskDefinition Amazon Ecs Deregister a Task Definition #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.DescribeTaskDefinition Amazon Ecs Describe a Task Definition #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.ListTaskDefinitions Amazon Ecs List Task Definitions #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.ListTaskDefinitionFamilies Amazon Ecs List Task Definition Families #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.TagResource Amazon Ecs Tag an Ecs Resource #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.UntagResource Amazon Ecs Remove Tags From an Ecs Resource #
POST /#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.ListTagsForResource Amazon Ecs List Tags for an Ecs Resource #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-ecs-task-definitions-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon ECS Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Task…
  description: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. The Amazon ECS API uses an RPC model where all actions are routed to a single endpoint via POST with an X-Amz-Target header specifying the action. This specification models the core ECS resource operations for clusters, services, tasks, and task definitions.
  version: '2014-11-13'
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  x-apisguru-categories:
  - cloud
  x-logo:
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/favicon.ico
  x-origin:
  - format: openapi
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
    version: '3.1'
servers:
- url: https://ecs.{region}.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon ECS regional endpoint
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
      description: AWS region
      enum:
      - us-east-1
      - us-east-2
      - us-west-1
      - us-west-2
      - eu-west-1
      - eu-west-2
      - eu-west-3
      - eu-central-1
      - eu-north-1
      - ap-southeast-1
      - ap-southeast-2
      - ap-northeast-1
      - ap-northeast-2
      - ap-south-1
      - sa-east-1
      - ca-central-1
security:
- aws_sig_v4: []
tags:


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