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ECS Service

ECS Service is a construct to run and maintain a specified number of instances of a task definition. It is responsible for monitoring and launching new task instance in case of failures to provide high availability and scalability. An ECS Service can be associated with a load balancer, the load balancer distributes traffic across task instances managed by ECS Service.

App Mesh Virtual Node

A Virtual Node act as a logical pointer to task group such as ECS Service or Kubernetes Deployment. A Virtual Node specification consists of

• Listener
  • Port and protocol information for clients to connect to this Virtual Node
  • Health checks
  • Time out
  • TLS configuration
• Logging
• Service Discovery
  • DNS hostname for this service
  • CloudMap attributes for this service
• Backends
  • List of backend services that this service connects to