Creating a service

A service is an implementation of a task definition, and runs tasks. To create a service, a cluster must be selected.

1. Click on the default cluster link, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Select the Services tab and click on Create, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. In Configure service, select FARGATE as the Launch type and select the Task definition created earlier.
4. Select LATEST as the Platform version. The default cluster should be listed as selected, because we selected default to start with.
5. Specify a Service name (hello-world-service) and set Number of tasks to 3, as shown in the following screenshot:

6. Leaving the other settings as their defaults, click on Next step.