POST

/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.StartTask

http://ecs.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.StartTask

Starts a new task from the specified task definition on the specified container instance or instances. <note> Starting April 15, 2023, Amazon Web Services will not onboard new customers to Amazon Elastic Inference (EI), and will help current customers migrate their workloads to options that offer better price and performance. After April 15, 2023, new customers will not be able to launch instances with Amazon EI accelerators in Amazon SageMaker, Amazon ECS, or Amazon EC2. However, customers who have used Amazon EI at least once during the past 30-day period are considered current customers and will be able to continue using the service. </note> Alternatively, you can use <a>RunTask</a> to place tasks for you. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/scheduling_tasks.html">Scheduling Tasks</a> in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.

Access Token Required: API Key

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://ecs.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonEC2ContainerServiceV20141113.StartTask' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}