Amazon Elastic Container Service
Developer Guide (API Version 2014-11-13)

Amazon ECS-Optimized AMI

The Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is the recommended AMI for you to use to launch your Amazon ECS container instances. Although you can create your own container instance AMI that meets the basic specifications outlined in Container Instance AMIs, the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is preconfigured and tested on Amazon ECS by AWS engineers. It is the simplest AMI for you to get started and to get your containers running on AWS quickly.

The current Amazon ECS-optimized AMI (amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized) consists of:

  • The latest minimal version of the Amazon Linux AMI

  • The latest version of the Amazon ECS container agent (1.20.3)

  • The recommended version of Docker for the latest Amazon ECS container agent (18.06.1-ce)

  • The latest version of the ecs-init package to run and monitor the Amazon ECS agent (1.20.3-1)

The Amazon ECS-optimized AMI metadata, including the AMI ID, can be retrieved programmatically. For more information, see Retrieving the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI Metadata.

The current Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI IDs by region are listed below for reference.

Region AMI Name AMI ID EC2 console link
us-east-2 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-09a64272e7fe706b6 Launch instance
us-east-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0b9a214f40c38d5eb Launch instance
us-west-2 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-00430184c7bb49914 Launch instance
us-west-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0e7dd5fe55b87a5fe Launch instance
eu-west-3 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-06b685336aa497c15 Launch instance
eu-west-2 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0209769f0c963e791 Launch instance
eu-west-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-05b65c0f6a75c1c64 Launch instance
eu-central-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0bb804e8cd910a664 Launch instance
ap-northeast-2 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0d947b1901b27a37c Launch instance
ap-northeast-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-08681de00a0aae54f Launch instance
ap-southeast-2 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-05b48eda7f92aadbe Launch instance
ap-southeast-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0a3f70f0255af1d29 Launch instance
ca-central-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-00d1bdbd447b5933a Launch instance
ap-south-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-0590d0dd683026eab Launch instance
sa-east-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-01bca91ecf4c1f494 Launch instance
us-gov-west-1 amzn-ami-2018.03.g-amazon-ecs-optimized ami-5256cf33 Launch instance