Installing ECS CLI

To install ECS CLI on PowerShell, first run PowerShell as an administrator by right-clicking on Windows PowerShell and selecting Run as administrator:

1. Subsequently, run the following command to create a new item of type directory at the specified path:

New-Item -ItemType "directory" -Path "C:\Program Files\Amazon\ECSCLI"

2. Download and install ecs-cli ecs-cli-windows-amd64-latest.exeto application ecs-cli.exe in directory C:\Program Files\Amazon\ECSCLI\.

Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile ‘C:\Program Files\Amazon\ECSCLI\ecs-cli.exe’ https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-ecs-cli/ecs-cli-windows-amd64-latest.exe

3. Add C:\Program Files\Amazon\ECSCLI to the PATH environment variable. Output the ecs-cli version:

ecs-cli --version

The preceding commands run in PowerShell, as shown in the following screenshot: