Amazon ECS now enables you to define weekly event windows for scheduling task retirements on AWS Fargate
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This article announces that Amazon ECS now supports weekly event windows for scheduling Fargate task retirements, enabling precise control over infrastructure update timing.
- Define weekly event windows to control when Fargate tasks are retired for platform updates
- Prevent disruption to mission-critical workloads during peak business hours
- Configure fargateEventWindows account setting to enable the feature
- Use Amazon EC2 event window interface to specify time ranges for retirements
- Target tasks using ECS-managed tags: cluster ARN, service ARN, or all Fargate tasks
- Available in all commercial AWS Regions
This feature gives ECS users granular control over task retirement scheduling, allowing them to align infrastructure updates with low-traffic periods.
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