Shell into ECS Fargate container with VSCode AWSTool
Gernot Glawe

Gernot Glawe @megaproaktiv

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Shell into ECS Fargate container with VSCode AWSTool

Publish Date: Dec 2 '22
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The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code keeps getting better:

Easily log into fargate container

Log into fargate

This becomes possible with aws ecs execute-command, see ecs.exec. It has nothing to do with ssh, it's done via the Systems Manager!

Execute Lambda Functions

Lambda execute

As I like to save some example events locally, this lets me use these files. Again - faster than with the console.

View larger CloudWatch logs streams

If you have a large log stream with the console, you must click load more several times.

Load More

The same thing is achieved by the toolkit:

Logs

Good work toolkit team!

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