Amazon Web Services launched Amazon ECS Gateway on October 20, 2026, a managed ingress option for services running on Amazon Elastic Container Service. The new account-level resource provisions and runs the Application Load Balancers, certificates, listener rules and security groups that ECS services need to take traffic, and AWS says it is available now at no additional charge in all commercial AWS Regions where ECS is available.

Before this, teams had to provision and connect an ALB, an AWS Certificate Manager certificate, AWS WAF web ACLs and security groups for every new service, then keep those resources in sync as services scaled and changed, according to the AWS News Blog launch post by Channy Yun. “This per-service overhead slows down deployment velocity and increases the risk of configuration drift across an organization,” Yun wrote.

ECS Gateway splits that work between two groups.…