Amazon ECS extends Amazon S3 Files support to the Amazon EC2 compute type
Amazon ECS now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks running on Amazon EC2, allowing customers to directly access S3 data as a shared file system without code changes.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks run on Amazon EC2 launch type, allowing customers to directly connect containerized applications to S3 data using standard file system semantics. Customers running ECS workloads on EC2 instances can execute file-based applications, AI agents, and data processing workloads on S3 data without code changes, file duplication, or staging. Previously available for AWS Fargate and ECS managed instances, S3 Files support now extends to EC2 launch type, providing consistent access across all three ECS launch types. Based on Amazon EFS, S3 Files offers a shared file system that directly links AWS compute resources to S3 data, delivering full file system semantics, low-latency performance, and keeping data in S3. It works with both new and existing data, requiring no migration. Customers can mount S3 Files volumes in ECS tasks to read and write data in S3 buckets using standard file operations, with no application code changes or data copying required. S3 Files support is available in all AWS commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US).
Why it matters
Amazon ECS is a service for managing containerized applications, and this update allows tasks running on EC2 instances to directly access S3 data as a shared file system, simplifying file-based applications and data processing workloads.