Run an ECS Task When a File is Uploaded to an S3 Bucket using CloudWatch Events

You can use CloudWatch Events to run ECS tasks when certain AWS events occur.
You can set up a CloudWatch Events rule that runs an ECS task whenever a file is uploaded to a certain S3 bucket using the S3 PUT operation.
You can also declare a reduced number of ECS tasks whenever a file is deleted on the S3 bucket using the DELETE operation.
First, you must create a CloudWatch Events rule for the S3 service that will watch for object-level operations – PUT and DELETE objects.
For object-level operations, it is required to create a CloudTrail trail first.
On the Targets section, select the “ECS task” and input the needed values such as the cluster name, task definition and the task count.
You need two rules - one for the scale-up and another for the scale-down of the ECS task count.

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You can use CloudWatch Events to run ECS tasks when certain AWS events occur.
You can set up a CloudWatch Events rule that runs an ECS task whenever a file is uploaded to a certain S3 bucket using the S3 PUT operation.
You can also declare a reduced number of ECS tasks whenever a file is deleted on the S3 bucket using the DELETE operation.
First, you must create a CloudWatch Events rule for the S3 service that will watch for object-level operations – PUT and DELETE objects.
For object-level operations, it is required to create a CloudTrail trail first.
On the Targets section, select the “ECS task” and input the needed values such as the cluster name, task definition and the task count.
You need two rules - one for the scale-up and another for the scale-down of the ECS task count.

Last updated 4 years ago

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