Changes to support both Fargate and EC2

[pedroprieto]

Issue #, if available: Issue #186 Pull #217

Add support for both EC2 and Fargate. The instructions have been updated to offer both options. So, you can now deploy the ECS Service from module 2 both in regular and starter (student) AWS accounts.

Changes:

• Update instructions
• Add CloudFormation template for Starter (student) accounts which:
  • Uses NAT instances instead of NAT gateways
  • Creates an AutoScaling Group to use with a ECS Capacity Provider
• Add CLI commands to create a ECS service that uses capacity providers and EC2 container instances instead of Fargate

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[abaird986]

I appreciate the work here, but we'd prefer not to have the instructions fork within the modules. Perhaps we can consider these changes taking the form of their own separate branch. Can you give me some more background on the starter/student accounts? Does this work around restrictions that prevent use of the other services?

[pedroprieto]

Hi,

Perfectly understandable.

• Information about student accounts: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/aws-educate-faqs/
• Services supported by AWS Educate Starter Accounts: https://awseducate-starter-account-services.s3.amazonaws.com/AWS_Educate_Starter_Account_Services_Supported.pdf