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hi folks! I think I'm having a mental disconnect, coming from <http://temporal.io|temporal.io>

I've created an ECS cluster with a long running agent that's happily registered. I'm not trying to register a task, and a flow. However, when I try register it using `flow.register("pulumi_test", set_schedule_active*=False*)` it sets the flow to only run locally. More in :thread:

Ideally what I want to be able to do is define some code locally, and then set it to execute remotely. I can't seem to figure that out..any hints or tips?

I think you need a <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow_config/run_configs.html|RunConfiguration> set to use ECSRun to point to your Cluster. You also then need to store the Flow somewhere the ECS task can pull it.

You can see Anna’s article <https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-cut-your-aws-ecs-costs-with-fargate-spot-and-prefect-1a1ba5d2e2df|here> on how to get a Flow running on ECS

<https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow_config/storage.html#aws-s3|S3> is the most common storage used with ECS so the ECS Task can pull the Flow from S3 and then run it

&gt; You also then need to store the Flow somewhere the ECS task can pull it
Okay, I think that's the missing piece

I've defined some run configuration like so:

```flow.run_config = prefect.run_configs.ECSRun(image="pulumi/pulumi:latest", labels=["ecs", "fargate"])```
but it keeps adding the local hostname label when I run the code locally

Ah because the default <https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow_config/storage.html|Storage> is local storage so you can use something like Github or S3 instead. For testing, public Github is easiest. For S3, you need to give appropriate IAM permissions to the ECS task

okay, think I'm following now, thanks so much for the help! I'll give it a try

Also, if you are testing, the base prefect image is `prefecthq/prefect` , which might reduce the number of possible errors