Amazon ECS changelog
70 announcements since February 2025 · 7 GA · 2 price changes · 3 Region expansions
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October 20265
Adds cross-instance and Spot consolidation to pack tasks onto fewer instances
Run multiple tasks on a single NVIDIA GPU using Multi-Process Service
Managed ingress that provisions ALBs, with host-based routing and up to 25 services per ALBGA
Blue/green, linear and canary deployments for services using VPC Lattice
September 20264
August 20262
July 20267
Zone-aware routing prioritizes same-AZ traffic to cut cross-AZ transfer costs and latency
Built-in blue/green, linear and canary deployments in AWS European Sovereign CloudRegion
Timestamped records of ECS actions during deployments and Managed Daemon updates
GPU management fees cut 35% for G-series, 60% for P-series and Trainium from July 1, 2026Price
Supports custom task definitions, including sidecars, health checks, ulimits and FireLens
June 20266
20-second metrics for CPU and memory target tracking cut scale-out trigger time from 363s to 86s
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
New pidMode and ipcMode settings let daemons see host processes and share IPC namespace
32vCPU tasks with 60, 120 or 244 GiB memory on x86 and ARMGA
Supports AWS Trainium and Inferentia instances, including Inferentia2, Trainium1 and Trainium2GA