Creating your first ECS Fargate cluster

Sign in to **AWS Management Console** as an **IAM User** **Pre-requisite** - Ensure you have selected the AWS region closest to your location\ For this guide, we will be using us-west-1 (N. California) as a preferred choice

Type **Elastic Container Service** in the search bar and click on **Elastic Container Service** to view the Elastic Container Service Dashboard

On the Elastic Container Service dashboard, you can view all the clusters

Click on the **Create cluster** button from the top right of the page

Create cluster wizard will open. Provide a **Cluster name** and **Default namespace**.

Scroll to the **Infrastructure** section and select the infrastructure you want to configure for the new cluster. Checkbox the **AWS Fargate(serverless)**

Scroll to the **Monitoring** section, where you can enable or disable insights for the cluster

Scroll to the **Tags** section, where you can add tags for the cluster by clicking on **Add tag** button

Scroll to the end of the page, click on the **Create** button to create a cluster

To view the **Namespaces.** On the same page click on **Namespaces** from the left bar to view the Namespaces

To create the **Task definitions.** On the same page click on **Task definitions** from the left bar to view the Task definitions

You will be redirected to the **Task definitions** dashboard, where you can view all the **Task definitions**

To create a **Task definition**, click on **Create new task definition** button on the top right side of the page

To view the Documentation of **Amazon Elastic Container,** On the same page click on the **Documentation** link from the left bar to view the Documentation

By clicking the **Documentation** link, you can access the **Amazon Elastic Container Service Documentation** and Guide