ECS Express Mode

[ewbankkit]

Today, AWS announces Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode, a new feature that empowers developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, including web applications and APIs.

• Announcement
• Blog post

Requires AWS SDK for Go v2 Release 2025-11-20: #45173.

New Resource(s)

• aws_ecs_express_gateway_service

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[oycyc]

Very interesting that the blog post says Terraform is already supported even though it's not lol

[djglaser]

A Pull Request is out for supporting Express Mode in Terraform. Release for this feature is scheduled for later this week.

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