Amazon ECS announces managed instance draining, enabling graceful shutdown of workloads deployed on Amazon EC2 instances by safely stopping and rescheduling them to other non-terminating instances, simplifying infrastructure maintenance workflows without disrupting workloads.

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<p>The article announces a new capability called managed instance draining for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that facilitates graceful shutdown of workloads deployed on Amazon EC2 instances.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Managed instance draining allows for safely stopping and rescheduling workloads to other instances during infrastructure maintenance tasks like rolling out a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) version</li>
<li>This eliminates the need for customers to build custom solutions for graceful instance shutdown</li>
<li>It works with Amazon ECS Capacity Providers and Auto Scaling groups to manage instance scaling and termination</li>
<li>Instances are only terminated after running tasks have been safely stopped and rescheduled (up to 48 hours)</li>
<li>This new capability is available in all AWS Regions and can be used with features like Instance Refresh and maximum instance lifetime</li>
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Amazon ECS announces managed instance draining

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