How to schedule ECS tasks on AWS Fargate

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Jared S picture Jared S · Dec 6, 2017 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I have created a Task Definition on Elastic Container Service and have successfully run it in a Fargate cluster. However when I create a Scheduled Task in said cluster the option for "Launch Type" is hardcoded to EC2. Is there a way, perhaps through the command line to schedule the task to run on Fargate?

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Answer

David Lin picture David Lin · Sep 6, 2018

Heads up ! This is now supported in AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-fargate-now-supports-time-and-event-based-task-scheduling/

Although not in some regions - As at Apr-19 it still wasn't supported in EU-west-2 (London). Check the table at the top of this page to see if it's supported in the region you want: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/scheduled_tasks.html

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