**Example 1: Enable task protection for ECS tasks** The following ``update-task-protection`` protects your ECS task from termination during scale-in from Deployments or Service AutoScaling. You can specify custom expiration period for task protection from 1 up to 2,880 minutes (48 hours). If you do not specify expiration period, enabling task protection default time is 2 hours. :: aws ecs update-task-protection \ --cluster ECS-project-update-cluster \ --tasks c43ed3b1331041f289316f958adb6a24 \ --protection-enabled \ --expires-in-minutes 300 Output:: { "protectedTasks": [ { "taskArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:123456789012:task/c43ed3b1331041f289316f958adb6a24", "protectionEnabled": true, "expirationDate": "2024-09-14T19:53:36.687000-05:00" } ], "failures": [] } **Example 2: Disable task protection for ECS tasks** The following ``update-task-protection`` disables the tasks protected from scale in from Deployments or Service AutoScaling. :: aws ecs update-task-protection \ --cluster ECS-project-update-cluster \ --tasks c43ed3b1331041f289316f958adb6a24 \ --no-protection-enabled Output:: { "protectedTasks": [ { "taskArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:123456789012:task/c43ed3b1331041f289316f958adb6a24", "protectionEnabled": false } ], "failures": [] } For more formation on task protection, see `Protect your Amazon ECS tasks from being terminated by scale-in events `__ in the *Amazon ECS Developer Guide*.