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Amazon ECS integrates with EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions

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Amazon ECS now supports Amazon EBS volumes within AWS GovCloud Regions, simplifying the deployment of storage-intensive applications like ETL and media transcoding. Users can configure EBS volume details within ECS task definitions and API requests. This integration offers access to EBS features such as encryption and snapshots for containerized workloads across EC2, Fargate, and managed instances.

  • →Amazon ECS support for EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions
  • →Leverage full EBS features with ECS
  • →Availability across compute options
Features (1) ›
  • Amazon ECS support for EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions

    Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions, enabling easier deployment of data-intensive applications like ETL jobs and media transcoding. Configuration is handled via task definitions and API requests, with Amazon ECS automatically provisioning and mounting EBS volumes to tasks.

Enhancements (1) ›
  • Leverage full EBS features with ECS

    This integration provides access to all EBS features, including configurable volume types, performance tuning, snapshots, Data Lifecycle Manager, and encryption for applications deployed on Amazon ECS. EBS volumes are automatically deleted with tasks by default.

Notes (1) ›
  • Availability across compute options

    Amazon ECS support for Amazon EBS volumes is available in the AWS GovCloud Regions for Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances.

Read the original announcement →

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/ecs-amazon-ebs-govcloud/

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