AWS News Blog Today, we’re announcing managed daemon support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances . This new capability extends the managed instances experience we introduced in September 2025 , by giving platform engineers independent control over software agents such as monitoring, logging, and tracing tools, without requiring coordination with application development teams, while also improving reliability by ensuring every instance consistently runs required daemons and enabling comprehensive host-level monitoring. When running containerized workloads at scale, platform engineers manage a wide range of responsibilities, from scaling and patching infrastructure to keeping applications running reliably and maintaining the operational agents that support those applications. Until now, many of these concerns were tightly coupled.…