title: Lifecycle of an EC2 Container Service Instance
body: <p>In my project I have a constraint where all of the traffic received will go to a certain IP.  The Elastic IP feature works well for this.  </p>
  
  <p>My question is, considering we are using Amazon's docker service (ECS) without autoscaling (so instances/tasks will be scaled manually), can we treat the instances created by the ECS service as we would treat normal, on-demand instances?  As in they won't be terminated/stopped unless explicitly done by a user (or API call or whatever).</p>