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Date Published
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Sumedha Mehta, Colten Woo, Jason Mimick, Josh Lineaweaver
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888
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English
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None

Summary

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Managed Instances offer a fully managed compute option for running containerized workloads on Amazon EC2, alleviating the operational overhead of infrastructure management by handling provisioning, patching, scaling, and maintenance. This service provides developers with access to a wide variety of EC2 instance types, including those with GPU acceleration and high-throughput networking capabilities, which are particularly useful for AI and data processing workloads. Datadog has expanded its ECS monitoring capabilities to fully support ECS Managed Instances, offering tools to analyze cluster performance, troubleshoot issues, and correlate telemetry data across ECS environments. The ECS Explorer in Datadog provides a unified view of ECS resources, allowing users to inspect resource configurations and analyze performance signals, while the OOTB Amazon ECS dashboard offers a high-level overview of the environment. Datadog's monitoring features include alert configurations for ECS tasks and the ability to quickly navigate between related resources, thereby improving visibility and reliability across ECS deployments.