Amazon ECS CLI

amazon-ecs-cli

Command line interface for Amazon ECS

Runs as ecs-cli|macOS, Linux, Windows|github.com

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Create an ECS cluster with ecs-cli up. Compose, task and service commands are not covered.

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Run in Otty

otty gui amazon-ecs-cli

`ecs-cli up`

Create a cluster

Create an ECS cluster (EC2 or Fargate). Other options such as VPC and subnets are left out.

Create a clusterExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Cluster name

string

Launch type

EC2enum

EC2 key pair*

string

Allow IAM resource creation

--capability-iam

Number of instances

integer

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

EC2 cluster

clusterkeypaircapability_iamsizelaunch_type

Fargate cluster

clusterlaunch_type

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Cluster name

string

--cluster

Launch type

enum

--launch-typeEC2FARGATE

EC2 key pair

string

--keypair

Allow IAM resource creation

boolean

--capability-iam

Number of instances

integer

--size

Empty cluster

Create the cluster without container instances.
boolean

--empty

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

readme

ecs-cli up --keypair my-key --capability-iam --size 2 ecs-cli up --cluster myCluster --empty ecs-cli up --launch-type FARGATE ecs-cli configure --cluster cluster_name --region region_name --config-name configuration_name

help2026-10-27

github.com

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