aws-containers
A core skill from AWS's agent toolkit for container workloads on AWS.
What the skill teaches
A core skill from AWS's agent toolkit for container workloads on AWS. It covers Amazon EKS with Karpenter, the AWS Load Balancer Controller and common open-source Kubernetes projects; Amazon ECS with task definitions, Fargate services, ECS Exec, Express Mode and Managed Instances; Amazon ECR repositories and lifecycle policies; Elastic Beanstalk; and App Runner. It also explains how to turn on and read ECS Action Logs to investigate deployment rollbacks, placement, scaling and task replacement failures. It routes the agent to the right service reference for deploying, debugging or tuning containers and is part of the aws-core plugin.
Capabilities
- Deploy containers on EKS, ECS or Fargate
- Set up ECR repositories and lifecycle policies
- Use ECS Action Logs to troubleshoot deployments
- Route container questions to service references
About
- Publisher
- Amazon Web Services
Install
What's inside
- references/action-logs.md
- references/beanstalk-configuration.md
- references/beanstalk-platforms.md
- references/beanstalk.md
- references/ecr.md
- references/ecs-gateway.md
- references/ecs-gpu-sharing.md
- references/ecs-managing-compute.md
- references/ecs-workloads.md
- references/ecs.md
- references/eks-auto-mode.md
- references/eks-capabilities.md
- references/eks-control-plane.md
- references/eks-load-balancer-controller.md
- references/eks-managing-compute.md
- references/eks-networking.md
- references/eks.md
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Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tools | Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes | |
| Publisher | Amazon Web Services | source |
| Official status | Officialpublished in AWS's own GitHub organisation (github.com/aws) as part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 11, 20263,464 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsNov 10, 2026
- README (README.md)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Official status, PublisherNov 13, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: LicenceNov 13, 2026
- Folder in the repository (aws-containers)github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws · Backs: Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
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