Amazon ECS provides the ability to restart containers without requiring a task relaunch

The article discusses a new feature in Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) that allows you to define a container restart policy for restarting individual containers locally, without requiring a full task relaunch.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Amazon ECS now improves container resiliency by providing the ability to restart containers locally when they encounter failures like network disruptions or unexpected stops.
• This feature enables faster recovery of containers from transient failures compared to relaunching the entire task.
• It is useful for containers that require fault tolerance, such as data loggers, collectors, or forwarders, where a restart can clear indeterminate conditions.
• The new container restart policy parameters can be set up in the Amazon ECS Developer Guide.
• This feature is now enabled in all AWS Regions.