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adds video and lightly refactors ECS quickstart
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In this quickstart, we use a number of techniques/tools like `jq` and environment variables to make the quickstart experience as simple and straightforward as possible.
When registering EC2 instances as capacity for an ECS cluster, you can use Bottlerocket as the operating system for these instances.
If you want to understand the AWS console workflow, start with the [video _Amazon ECS: Using Bottlerocket_.](#aws-console-quickstart)
Otherwise, read the [AWS CLI Quickstart](#aws-cli-quickstart) or the pattern [Amazon ECS cluster on Bottlerocket](https://containersonaws.com/pattern/ecs-ec2-bottlerocket-cluster) which outlines how to start Bottlerocket with [SAM CLI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/).

## AWS CLI Quickstart

This quickstart uses a number of techniques/tools like `jq` and environment variables to make the quickstart experience as simple and straightforward as possible.
These tools are not absolutely necessary to use Bottlerocket on ECS.

## Prerequisites
### Prerequisites

There are some preliminary tasks to complete in order to use ECS.
You need to both set up your AWS account for use with ECS and have an IAM role for ECS configured:
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- [`aws-cli`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html#getting-started-install-instructions): Used to interact with AWS services.
- [`jq`](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/): Used for parsing response data from `aws-cli`.

## Create a Cluster
### Create a Cluster

First, set some environment variables to use throughout this quickstart:

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```

## Launching Instances Into Your Cluster
### Launching Instances Into Your Cluster

After your ECS cluster is created, you can add instances to it.

### Enabling SSM
#### Enabling SSM

Enable SSM on the `ecsInstanceRole` IAM role by attaching the `AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore` managed policy to the role:

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--policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore
```

### Connecting To Your Cluster
#### Connecting To Your Cluster

In order to communicate with ECS, configure each node with the name of the cluster.
The following command will create a file named `quickstart-ecs-user-data.toml` with the appropriate contents:
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EOF
```

### Launch
#### Launch

Now you can add Bottlerocket instances to your ECS cluster!
There are some values that you need to set in your environment first such as the Subnet ID, Bottlerocket AMI ID, and ECS Instance Profile Name.
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Once the instance launches, you should be able to run tasks on your Bottlerocket instance using either the ECS API or web console.

## Confirming Your Instances Are Running
### Confirming Your Instances Are Running

To confirm that nodes are running in your cluster, you can run the following command to list your ECS cluster nodes:

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```

## Interacting With Your Cluster
### Interacting With Your Cluster

To confirm in depth that an instance is running Bottlerocket, save the instance ID and follow the steps in the [Host Containers Quickstart](../host-containers).

Congratulations!
You now have a Bottlerocket cluster running on ECS.

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## AWS Console Quickstart

If you want to start an ECS cluster using EC2 nodes running Bottlerocket, the follow video provides a high level walk through.
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