ECS

Reproduce the scenario with my CDK example: https://github.com/foyst/ecs-service-connect-dependencies I’ve been working on a project recently that made use of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Service Connect. Since I last used ECS they’ve introduced capabilities around service discovery which aim to solve challenges orchestrating services in distributed and fluid environments. ECS Service Connect is different to Service Discovery, in that it still uses AWS Cloud Map under the hood as a service catalogue, but uses API based discovery rather than DNS. This means it’s quicker for it to detect outages to applications and update service entries as necessary. It’s kinda like...

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