AWS Cloud Map Documentation

Cloud Map allows your applications to discover web-based services via AWS SDK, API calls, or DNS queries. Over DNS, Cloud Map provides resource locations of IP addresses or IP:port combinations using either IPv4 or IPv6. Using the discovery API, Cloud Map can return URLs or ARNs as well as IP addresses and IP:port combinations.

AWS Cloud Map lets you define custom names for services in your application. This can include Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, and other cloud resources.

Cloud Map lets you define custom attributes for each resource, such as location and deployment stage. This provides you the ability to customize your deployment across different regions or environments.

Cloud Map is integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), which is designed so that only authenticated services can discover resources within the registry and retrieve the location and credential for those resources.

Amazon Route 53 health checks are designed so that healthy endpoints are returned on discovery queries. 

Services and tasks managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Service for Kubernetes (EKS) can be registered and updated in Cloud Map. As ECS launches tasks for your service, it registers them as resources with Cloud Map, making them discoverable.

The updates on your resource locations and attributes are available when using API-based discovery.

AWS Cloud Map reduces the need to set up, update, and manage your own service discovery tools and software.

For additional information about service controls, security features and functionalities, including, as applicable, information about storing, retrieving, modifying, restricting, and deleting data, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html. This additional information does not form part of the Documentation for purposes of the AWS Customer Agreement available at http://aws.amazon.com/agreement, or other agreement between you and AWS governing your use of AWS’s services.