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page_title: AWS ECS
description: >-
Consul Service Mesh can be deployed on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service).
This section documents the official installation of Consul on ECS.
---
# AWS ECS
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Consul service mesh applications can be deployed on [AWS Elastic Container Service](https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/) (ECS)
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using either our official [Terraform modules](/docs/ecs/terraform/install) or without Terraform by [manually configuring
the task definition](/docs/ecs/manual/install).
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## Service Mesh
Using Consul on AWS ECS enables you to add your ECS tasks to the service mesh and
take advantage of features such as zero-trust-security, intentions, observability,
traffic policy, and more.
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## Architecture
![Consul on ECS Architecture](/img/consul-ecs-arch.png)
Consul on ECS follows an [architecture](/docs/internals/architecture) similar to other platforms, but each ECS task is a
Consul node. An ECS task runs the user application container(s), as well as a Consul client container for control plane
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communication and an [Envoy](https://envoyproxy.io/) sidecar proxy container to facilitate data plane communication for
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[Consul Connect](/docs/connect).
For a detailed architecture overview, see the [Architecture](/docs/ecs/architecture) page.
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## Getting Started
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There are several ways to get started with Consul with ECS.
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* The [Serverless Consul Service Mesh with ECS and HCP](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/cloud/consul-ecs-hcp?in=consul/cloud-integrations) learn guide shows how to use Terraform to run Consul service mesh applications on ECS with managed Consul servers running in HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).
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* The [Service Mesh with ECS and Consul on EC2](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/consul-ecs-ec2?in=consul/cloud-integrations) learn guide shows how to use Terraform to run Consul service mesh applications on ECS with Consul servers running on EC2 instances.
* The [Consul with Dev Server on Fargate](https://registry.terraform.io/modules/hashicorp/consul-ecs/aws/latest/examples/dev-server-fargate) example installation deploys a sample application in ECS using the Fargate launch type.
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* The [Consul with Dev Server on EC2](https://registry.terraform.io/modules/hashicorp/consul-ecs/aws/latest/examples/dev-server-ec2) example installation deploys a sample application in ECS using the EC2 launch type.
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Refer to the [Requirements](/docs/ecs/requirements) and use one of the following sets of instructions when you're ready to install Consul on an existing ECS cluster and add tasks to the service mesh:
* [Install with Terraform](/docs/ecs/terraform/install)
* [Install Manually](/docs/ecs/manual/install)