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Amazon ECS Gateway Simplifies Ingress Networking for Containerized Services
Key points
- ECS Gateway automates ingress networking for ECS services.
- Separates responsibilities: platform teams configure gateways, application teams opt-in services.
- Supports host-based routing and allows up to 25 services per ALB.
- Manages ALBs, certificates, DNS, and security groups automatically.
- ECS Gateway is an account-level ingress resource.
- Each service gets a generated hostname.
- ECS Gateway does not support custom domains.
- Channy Yun described the new account-level resource.
- ECS Gateway is available in all commercial regions where ECS runs.
- There is no additional charge for ECS Gateway beyond provisioned resources.
- Platform teams can include WAF web ACLs with the gateway.
- Application teams add a gateway connector via CreateService or UpdateService.
- ECS provisions an ACM certificate per service.
Automated Ingress for ECS
Amazon has launched ECS Gateway, a new feature designed to simplify ingress networking for containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Previously, platform teams faced bottlenecks configuring Application Load Balancers (ALBs), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) certificates, AWS WAF web ACLs, and security groups for each service, leading to slow deployments and configuration drift.
Streamlined Configuration and Management
ECS Gateway operates as an account-level resource that dynamically provisions and manages the necessary ingress infrastructure directly within the user's AWS account. This automation reduces the manual effort required for networking setup, allowing platform teams to define organizational networking standards once, including subnets, security groups, TLS certificates, and WAF web ACLs.
Application teams can then opt their services into the gateway by adding a connector parameter during service creation or updates. ECS automatically provisions per-service resources such as ACM certificates, unique DNS hostnames, listener rules, target groups, and service security groups, eliminating the need for application teams to have networking expertise.
Cost Optimization and Resource Sharing
The new gateway solution supports host-based routing using ALBs and allows up to 25 services to share a single ALB, which helps optimize infrastructure costs. ECS manages the full lifecycle of the underlying infrastructure, provisioning ALBs as needed when services connect, adding more as capacity is reached, and removing them when they are no longer required.
Each connected service receives a unique DNS hostname, providing an immediate endpoint upon provisioning completion.
Operational Details
Platform teams can create and configure a gateway through the ECS console. This involves providing an IAM role that ECS assumes to provision and manage networking resources like ALBs, security groups, and certificates within the AWS account.
Updates
- ECS Gateway is an account-level ingress resource.
- Each service gets a generated hostname.
- ECS Gateway does not support custom domains.
- Channy Yun described the new account-level resource.
- ECS Gateway is available in all commercial regions where ECS runs.
- There is no additional charge for ECS Gateway beyond provisioned resources.
- Platform teams can include WAF web ACLs with the gateway.
- Application teams add a gateway connector via CreateService or UpdateService.
- ECS provisions an ACM certificate per service.
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How outlets covered it
AWS launched Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level ingress resource for containerized workloads that automates infrastructure provisioning. The gateway assigns each service a generated hostname, and current documentation does not describe how to use custom domains, limiting its utility for production environments requiring specific hostnames.
Amazon introduced ECS Gateway, a new account-level resource that automates the provisioning and management of ingress networking infrastructure for containerized workloads on Amazon ECS. This solution reduces configuration overhead for platform teams and allows application teams to connect services without manual networking setup, optimizing infrastructure costs by enabling multiple services to share ALBs.