Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Anywhere supports the deployment of Amazon ECS tasks in any environment, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed infrastructure and customer managed infrastructure. You can do this while using a fully AWS managed control plane that’s running in the cloud and always up to date.
Enterprises often use Amazon WorkSpaces for developing container-based applications. This has required Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or AWS Fargate with an Amazon ECS cluster to test and run ECS tasks. Now, by using Amazon ECS Anywhere, you can add Amazon WorkSpaces as external instances directly to an ECS cluster, and you can run your tasks directly. This reduces your development time, because you can test your container with an ECS cluster locally on Amazon WorkSpaces. You can also save the cost of using EC2 or Fargate instances for testing your container applications.
This pattern showcases how to deploy ECS tasks on Amazon WorkSpaces with Amazon ECS Anywhere. It sets up the ECS cluster and uses AWS Directory Service Simple AD to launch the WorkSpaces. Then the example ECS task launches NGINX in the WorkSpaces.
