Elastic Container Service (ECS) launched in December 2014[1], as technology preview in November 2014[2], supports to run Docker containers in AWS as a Service and Auto Scaling since May 2016[3]. For creating a ECS resource using Cloudformation you can use AWS ECS Reference Architecture[4].

See also

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  1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-service-in-action/
  2. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloud-container-management/
  3. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/automatic-scaling-with-amazon-ecs/
  4. https://github.com/aws-samples/ecs-refarch-cloudformation