Deploying Temporal Workers to Amazon ECS
4/2/2026
This post details the technical considerations and implementation steps for deploying Temporal Workers on Amazon ECS with Fargate. It covers Dockerfile best practices for Temporal Workers, implementing HTTP health checks, handling SIGTERM for graceful shutdown, configuring ECS task definitions with SSM Parameter Store for secrets, differentiating between ECS execution and task roles, leveraging Fargate Spot for cost savings, and setting up ECS Application Auto Scaling with asymmetric cooldowns and minimum capacity. It also provides guidance on observability using CloudWatch logs and container insights, and outlines criteria for choosing between ECS and EKS.