<p>I am referring to this article about ECS task definition: <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task_definitions.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amazon ECS Task definitions</a></p>
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<p>The Docker image to use with each container in your task</p>
<p>How much CPU and memory to use with each task or each container within
a task</p>
<p>The launch type to use, which determines the infrastructure on which
your tasks are hosted</p>
<p>The Docker networking mode to use for the containers in your task</p>
<p>The logging configuration to use for your tasks</p>
<p>Whether the task should continue to run if the container finishes or
fails</p>
<p>The command the container should run when it is started</p>
<p>Any data volumes that should be used with the containers in the task</p>
<p>The IAM role that your tasks should use</p>
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<p>If I have to draw any similarity with other orchestration frameworks, the above seems to be closely matching with Kubernetes pod.</p>
<p>So, is ECS Task Definition more or less same as POD specification in K8S????</p>

<p>The short answer is YES but more similar to deployment rather than pods.</p>
<p>The longer answer is that ECS task definitions is a way to integrate containers to the AWS ecosystem and provides the configuration and metadata information to the ECS control plane which is AWS's propriety</p>
