Amazon CodeCatalyst is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see [How to migrate from CodeCatalyst](migration.md).

# 'Deploy to Amazon ECS' variables
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The **Deploy to Amazon ECS** action produces and sets the following variables at run time. These are known as *predefined variables*.

For information about referencing these variables in a workflow, see [Using predefined variables](workflows-using-predefined-variables.md).


| Key | Value | 
| --- | --- | 
| cluster | The name of the Amazon ECS cluster that was deployed to during the workflow run.<br />Example: `codecatalyst-ecs-cluster` | 
| deployment-platform | The name of the deployment platform.<br />Hardcoded to `AWS:ECS`. | 
| service | The name of the Amazon ECS service that was deployed to during the workflow run.<br />Example: `codecatalyst-ecs-service` | 
| task-definition-arn | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task definition that was registered during the workflow run.<br />Example: `arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task-definition/codecatalyst-task-def:8`<br />The `:8` in the preceding example indicates the revision that was registered. | 
| deployment-url | A link to the Amazon ECS console's **Events** tab, where you can view details of the Amazon ECS deployment associated with the workflow run.<br />Example: `https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/home?region=us-west-2#/clusters/codecatalyst-ecs-cluster/services/codecatalyst-ecs-service/events` | 
| region | The region code of the AWS Region that was deployed to during the workflow run.<br />Example: `us-west-2` |