AWS EC2 Container Service

Owned by Selvyn Wright
Last updated: May 07, 2017

Important

Before you begin, be sure that you've completed the steps in Setting Up with Amazon ECS and that your AWS user has the required permissions specified in the Amazon ECS First Run Wizard IAM policy example.

  1. Begin by creating an IAM user, use this page, follow these instructions
  2. Before the Amazon ECS agent can register container instance into a cluster, the agent must know which account credentials to use.  Follow these instructions for creating roles.
  3. Create the key pair for the user, follow these instructions.

Important

If you will use an SSH client on a Mac or Linux computer to connect to your Linux instance, use the following command to set the permissions of your private key file so that only you can read it.

$ chmod 400 your_user_name-key-pair-region_name.pem