Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) capacity providers now support delete functionality. You can delete capacity providers once they are no longer in use using either the AWS Management Console or the new DeleteCapacityProvider API.

Capacity providers help you manage compute capacity for containers by allowing the application to define its requirements for how it uses the capacity. With capacity providers, you can define flexible rules for how containerized workloads run on different types of compute capacity, and manage the scaling of the capacity. Capacity providers improve the availability, scalability, and cost of running tasks and services on ECS.

Capacity providers work with both EC2 and Fargate. With EC2, you can create a capacity provider associated with an EC2 Auto Scaling group (ASG). The capacity provider can be used to manage scaling of the ASG through ECS cluster auto scaling, ensuring that the capacity necessary to run your task is requested even if it is not yet available. When running tasks and services, you can split them across multiple capacity providers. This enables new capabilities such as running a service in a predefined split percentage across Fargate and Fargate Spot, or ensuring that a service runs an equal number of tasks in multiple availability zones without requiring the service to rebalance.

This new functionality is available in all regions where ECS is available. To learn more, visit our documentation and API reference.