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Elastic Compute Service:Use Terraform to deploy ECS

Last Updated:Mar 25, 2024

Terraform is an open source, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows developers to define and manage infrastructure configurations by using a declarative language. Terraform provides a simple way to create, modify, or delete Elastic Compute Service (ECS) resources. Terraform assists in reducing the complexity and errors of manual operations and improving the manageability and maintainability of infrastructure. This topic describes how to install and configure Terraform. This topic also describes how to use Terraform to create an ECS instance or deploy a web cluster.

For more information, see What is Terraform?

Install and configure Terraform

Common operations in Terraform

For more information, see Use Cases.

References

For more information about how to create ECS instances, see Provisioning methods of ECS instances.