[markplindsay]

I haven’t used ECS scheduled tasks, only the Elastic Beanstalk equivalent (which I don’t like very much).

For my “worker” ECS containers, I set them up to run their tasks using an app-level scheduling library. When a task finishes, the app phones home an event to Datadog. If Datadog doesn’t get notified within a certain amount of time, I get an email. So far it’s proven to be pretty reliable.

I’m sure similar functionality exists somewhere in AWS, but DD is so easy and we use it for a bunch of other stuff anyway.