Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR Are Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Posted on: Jan 24, 2018

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region that meets FedRAMP High and Moderate security baselines. The region has attained DISA's DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 provisional authorizations, allowing customers to host sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and all types of regulated workloads.

In addition to being available in AWS GovCloud (US), Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR meet the compliance requirements for SOC 1/2/3, PCI, ISO 9001/27001/27017/27018, and HIPAA. Learn more on our compliance site.

For more information, visit the product pages for Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR, and AWS GovCloud.

Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), GovCloud (US), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU(Paris), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and China (Beijing) regions. For more information on AWS regions and service, please visit here.