Introducing VPC Flow Logs for Elastic Container Services
Networking & Content Delivery Blog
This article introduces the latest version of VPC Flow Logs (Version 7) which provides insights into network traffic flows for container workloads running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
Specifically, the article covers:
- A brief history of the evolution of VPC Flow Logs, from the default Version 2 format to the introduction of versions with additional fields for deeper network traffic insights
- The 10 new fields introduced in Version 7 related to ECS, such as ECS cluster ARN, task definition ARN, container IDs, and more
- A sample architecture showing a typical ECS workload and how the new fields map to various ECS components
- A walkthrough on creating a VPC Flow Log with ECS metadata using the AWS Console
- An example of viewing the enriched flow logs in Amazon CloudWatch
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the new capability for monitoring ECS traffic
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