Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads

This article introduces Amazon ECS's native integration with Amazon EBS volumes, enabling data-intensive workloads on containerized tasks running on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The ability to provision and attach Amazon EBS storage to ECS tasks alongside existing storage options like ephemeral and EFS.
• Benefits of using Amazon EBS for high-performance, low-cost storage that does not need to be shared across tasks.
• Step-by-step instructions for configuring EBS volumes in task definitions and running tasks with volume configuration.
• Options for configuring volume types, size, IOPS, encryption, and file systems during task deployment.
• Ability to retain data on EBS volumes after task termination and use existing EBS snapshots.