# Document for installing on AWS ECS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/document-for-installing-on-aws-ecs/37257
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/document-for-installing-on-aws-ecs/37257 "2015-12-30T13:04:45Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/document-for-installing-on-aws-ecs/37257/3 "2015-12-30T17:16:39Z")

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I think this would be needed to run on ECS:

> [@Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-discourse-ship-frequent-docker-images-that-do-not-need-to-be-bootstrapped/33205):
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> There is this [open issue](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/issues/186) (which I just closed) on Discourse Docker repo asking Discourse should behave like a standard docker image a docker user excepts to be able to run discourse without a special launcher. to define multiple containers (redis, postgres, discourse,..), links and volumes, docker-compose should be used instead. [Docker Compose | Docker Docs](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) The question is somewhat misguided, but I would like to address a broader one of Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do …

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