Amazon ECS adds support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today added support for Amazon EBS Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization. This feature helps you provision and attach fully performant Amazon EBS volumes from Amazon EBS Snapshots to your Amazon ECS tasks, accelerating initialization for your ETL jobs, media transcoding, and ML inference workloads deployed on Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS allows you to use Amazon EBS volumes for your ECS tasks and services deployed on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances by simply passing desired EBS volume attributes (e.g. size, type, IOPS, throughput). You could already initialize EBS volumes attached to your ECS tasks from an existing EBS snapshot by configuring the snapshot-id and with today’s release you can ensure that these attached volumes will be fully performant within a predictable amount of time by specifying a volume initialization rate for these volumes. For ECS services, ECS applies the same rate to volumes for all tasks in the service.

This feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. For pricing information, please visit the EBS pricing page. To learn more, please refer to our documentation.