Posted On: Nov 22, 2021
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon ECS Exec for workloads running on Windows operating systems. Amazon ECS Exec, launched in March 2021, makes it easier for customers to troubleshoot errors, collect diagnostic information, interact with processes in containers during development, or get “break-glass” access to containers to debug critical issues encountered in production.
AWS customers running Windows-based containerized applications often need to run commands on a subset of containers. Today, they do this by logging in to the Amazon ECS instance the container is running on, which can raise concerns related to audit, access control, and batch processing, among others. Amazon ECS Exec gives customers interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug issues, diagnose errors, collect one-off dumps and statistics, and interact with processes in the container.
Amazon ECS Exec for Windows is now available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions globally. This feature is supported on Amazon ECS optimized Windows AMIs (2019 and onwards) running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance with Network Address Translation (NAT) and task networking. Visit our documentation page or read more in the blog post about performing commands in a running Windows container using Amazon ECS Exec from API, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or AWS SDKs.