Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS Task Definitions API

Operations for managing ECS task definitions

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Business capability

IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 13

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 #

POST /#DeregisterTaskDefinition Deregister Task Definition #

POST /#DescribeTaskDefinition Describe Task Definition #

POST /#DeleteTaskDefinitions Delete Task Definitions #

POST /#ListTaskDefinitions List Task Definitions #

POST /#RegisterTaskDefinition Register Task Definition #

Documentation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ecs/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/getting-started.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/bestpracticesguide/intro.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_Operations.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/Welcome.html

Troubleshooting

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/troubleshooting.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-quotas.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-logging-monitoring.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/cloudwatch-metrics.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/cloudwatch-container-insights.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ecs-service.html

Specifications

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ecs/openapi/amazon-ecs-task-definitions-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ecs/json-schema/amazon-ecs-task-definition-schema.json

Other Resources

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ecs/json-ld/amazon-ecs-context.jsonld

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/tools/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ecs/

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/faqs/

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/features/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/document_history.html

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/partners/

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/resources/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/compute/amazon-elastic-container-service/

KnowledgeCenter

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ecs-troubleshoot-failed-deployments

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/security-compliance.html

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Ecs Task Definitions API
  version: '2014-11-13'
  x-refined-note:
  - x-apisguru-categories differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  - x-logo differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  - x-origin differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  description: 'Operations tagged Task Definitions across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: amazon-ecs-openapi.yml, amazon-ecs-task-definitions-api-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
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
tags:


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