Amazon ECS Managed Daemons Add Inter-Task Visibility and Communication
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication, allowing the deployment of tracing, profiling, and security agents that need access to application processes and shared IPC resources. This enhancement enables platform teams to deploy agents as daemons rather than sidecars, ensuring consistent coverage across workloads. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and requires configuring new `pidMode` and `ipcMode` settings in daemon definitions.
- →Enable inter-task visibility and communication for ECS Managed Daemons
- →Independent agent deployment and consistent coverage
- →Feature availability and configuration
Features (1) ›
- Enable inter-task visibility and communication for ECS Managed Daemons
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication, enabling the deployment of tracing, profiling, and security agents that require access to application processes and shared IPC resources on ECS Managed Instances. New settings, `pidMode` and `ipcMode`, can be configured to grant daemons access to the respective namespaces, allowing them to operate as daemons instead of sidecars.
Enhancements (1) ›
- Independent agent deployment and consistent coverage
ECS places exactly one daemon task per managed instance and starts daemons before application tasks. This ensures platform teams can deploy and update agents independently with consistent coverage across all workloads.
Notes (1) ›
- Feature availability and configuration
This feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost and can be configured using the AWS Console, CLI, CloudFormation, or AWS SDKs. It requires registering a daemon task definition with `pidMode` or `ipcMode` set to "shared" and using ECS Managed Instances capacity providers.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/ecs-managed-daemons-pid-ipc-modes/