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 The Amazon ECS Container Agent is a component of Amazon Elastic Container Service
 ([Amazon ECS](http://aws.amazon.com/ecs/)) and is responsible for managing containers on behalf of Amazon ECS.
 
-This repository comes with ECS-Init, which is a [systemd](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/) based service to support the Amazon ECS Container Agent and keep it running. It is used for systems that utilize `systemd` as init systems and is packaged as deb or rpm. The source for ECS-Init is available in this repository at `./ecs-init` while the packaging is available at `./packaging`.
+This repository comes with ECS-Init, which is a [systemd](https://systemd.io/) based service to support the Amazon ECS Container Agent and keep it running. It is used for systems that utilize `systemd` as init systems and is packaged as deb or rpm. The source for ECS-Init is available in this repository at `./ecs-init` while the packaging is available at `./packaging`.
 
 ## Usage