diff --git a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/src/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.ts b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/src/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.ts
index 56977c2c01..dea8034d68 100644
--- a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/src/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.ts
+++ b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/src/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.ts
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ import {
 // Patch until the OpenTelemetry SDK is updated to ship this attribute
 import { SemanticResourceAttributes as AdditionalSemanticResourceAttributes } from './SemanticResourceAttributes';
 import * as http from 'http';
-import * as util from 'util';
-import * as fs from 'fs';
 import * as os from 'os';
 import { getEnv } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 
@@ -65,11 +63,6 @@ interface AwsLogOptions {
  * plugins of AWS X-Ray. Returns an empty Resource if detection fails.
  */
 export class AwsEcsDetectorSync implements DetectorSync {
-  static readonly CONTAINER_ID_LENGTH = 64;
-  static readonly DEFAULT_CGROUP_PATH = '/proc/self/cgroup';
-
-  private static readFileAsync = util.promisify(fs.readFile);
-
   detect(): IResource {
     const attributes = context.with(suppressTracing(context.active()), () =>
       this._getAttributes()
@@ -88,7 +81,7 @@ export class AwsEcsDetectorSync implements DetectorSync {
       let resource = new Resource({
         [SEMRESATTRS_CLOUD_PROVIDER]: CLOUDPROVIDERVALUES_AWS,
         [SEMRESATTRS_CLOUD_PLATFORM]: CLOUDPLATFORMVALUES_AWS_ECS,
-      }).merge(await AwsEcsDetectorSync._getContainerIdAndHostnameResource());
+      }).merge(await AwsEcsDetectorSync._getHostnameResource());
 
       const metadataUrl = getEnv().ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4;
       if (metadataUrl) {
@@ -115,43 +108,16 @@ export class AwsEcsDetectorSync implements DetectorSync {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Read container ID from cgroup file
-   * In ECS, even if we fail to find target file
-   * or target file does not contain container ID
-   * we do not throw an error but throw warning message
-   * and then return null string
-   */
-  private static async _getContainerIdAndHostnameResource(): Promise<Resource> {
-    const hostName = os.hostname();
-
-    let containerId = '';
-    try {
-      const rawData = await AwsEcsDetectorSync.readFileAsync(
-        AwsEcsDetectorSync.DEFAULT_CGROUP_PATH,
-        'utf8'
-      );
-      const splitData = rawData.trim().split('\n');
-      for (const str of splitData) {
-        if (str.length > AwsEcsDetectorSync.CONTAINER_ID_LENGTH) {
-          containerId = str.substring(
-            str.length - AwsEcsDetectorSync.CONTAINER_ID_LENGTH
-          );
-          break;
-        }
-      }
-    } catch (e) {
-      diag.debug('AwsEcsDetector failed to read container ID', e);
-    }
+  private static async _getHostnameResource(): Promise<Resource> {
+      const hostName = os.hostname();
 
-    if (hostName || containerId) {
-      return new Resource({
-        [SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_NAME]: hostName || '',
-        [SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID]: containerId || '',
-      });
-    }
+      if (hostName) {
+        return new Resource({
+          [SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_NAME]: hostName || ''
+        });
+      }
 
-    return Resource.empty();
+      return Resource.empty();
   }
 
   private static async _getMetadataV4Resource(
@@ -174,10 +140,12 @@ export class AwsEcsDetectorSync implements DetectorSync {
       : `${baseArn}:cluster/${cluster}`;
 
     const containerArn: string = containerMetadata['ContainerARN'];
+    const containerId: string = containerMetadata['DockerId'];
 
     // https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/semantic_conventions/resource/cloud_provider/aws/ecs.yaml
     const attributes: ResourceAttributes = {
       [SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CONTAINER_ARN]: containerArn,
+      [SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID]: containerId,
       [SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CLUSTER_ARN]: clusterArn,
       [SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_LAUNCHTYPE]: launchType?.toLowerCase(),
       [SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_TASK_ARN]: taskArn,
diff --git a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetector.test.ts b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetector.test.ts
index 6a019fc82f..6f28d6530b 100644
--- a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetector.test.ts
+++ b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetector.test.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import {
 } from '@opentelemetry/contrib-test-utils';
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import {
+  SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID,
   SEMRESATTRS_CLOUD_PLATFORM,
   SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CONTAINER_ARN,
   SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CLUSTER_ARN,
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ interface EcsResourceAttributes {
   readonly zone?: string;
   readonly clusterArn?: string;
   readonly containerArn?: string;
+  readonly containerId?: string;
   readonly launchType?: 'ec2' | 'fargate';
   readonly taskArn?: string;
   readonly taskFamily?: string;
@@ -80,6 +82,11 @@ const assertEcsResource = (
       resource.attributes[SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CONTAINER_ARN],
       validations.containerArn
     );
+  if (validations.containerId)
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      resource.attributes[SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID],
+      validations.containerId
+    );
   assert.strictEqual(
     resource.attributes[AdditionalSemanticResourceAttributes.CLOUD_RESOURCE_ID],
     validations.containerArn
@@ -343,6 +350,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetector', () => {
             clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
             containerArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/0206b271-b33f-47ab-86c6-a0ba208a70a9',
+            containerId: 'ea32192c8553fbff06c9340478a2ff089b2bb5646fb718b4ee206641c9086d66',
             launchType: 'ec2',
             taskArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/158d1c8083dd49d6b527399fd6414f5c',
@@ -369,6 +377,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetector', () => {
             clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
             containerArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/05966557-f16c-49cb-9352-24b3a0dcd0e1',
+            containerId: 'cd189a933e5849daa93386466019ab50-2495160603',
             launchType: 'fargate',
             taskArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/e9028f8d5d8e4f258373e7b93ce9a3c3',
@@ -391,6 +400,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetector', () => {
               clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
               containerArn:
                 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/05966557-f16c-49cb-9352-24b3a0dcd0e1',
+              containerId: 'cd189a933e5849daa93386466019ab50-2495160603',
               launchType: 'fargate',
               taskArn:
                 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/e9028f8d5d8e4f258373e7b93ce9a3c3',
diff --git a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.test.ts b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.test.ts
index 171804bf1b..a6f23b4c24 100644
--- a/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.test.ts
+++ b/detectors/node/opentelemetry-resource-detector-aws/test/detectors/AwsEcsDetectorSync.test.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import {
 } from '@opentelemetry/contrib-test-utils';
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import {
+  SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID,
   SEMRESATTRS_CLOUD_PLATFORM,
   SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CONTAINER_ARN,
   SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CLUSTER_ARN,
@@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ interface EcsResourceAttributes {
   readonly zone?: string;
   readonly clusterArn?: string;
   readonly containerArn?: string;
+  readonly containerId?: string;
   readonly launchType?: 'ec2' | 'fargate';
   readonly taskArn?: string;
   readonly taskFamily?: string;
@@ -80,6 +82,11 @@ const assertEcsResource = (
       resource.attributes[SEMRESATTRS_AWS_ECS_CONTAINER_ARN],
       validations.containerArn
     );
+  if (validations.containerId)
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      resource.attributes[SEMRESATTRS_CONTAINER_ID],
+      validations.containerId
+    );
   assert.strictEqual(
     resource.attributes[AdditionalSemanticResourceAttributes.CLOUD_RESOURCE_ID],
     validations.containerArn
@@ -343,6 +350,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetectorSync', () => {
             clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
             containerArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/0206b271-b33f-47ab-86c6-a0ba208a70a9',
+            containerId: 'ea32192c8553fbff06c9340478a2ff089b2bb5646fb718b4ee206641c9086d66',
             launchType: 'ec2',
             taskArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/158d1c8083dd49d6b527399fd6414f5c',
@@ -369,6 +377,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetectorSync', () => {
             clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
             containerArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/05966557-f16c-49cb-9352-24b3a0dcd0e1',
+            containerId: 'cd189a933e5849daa93386466019ab50-2495160603',
             launchType: 'fargate',
             taskArn:
               'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/e9028f8d5d8e4f258373e7b93ce9a3c3',
@@ -391,6 +400,7 @@ describe('AwsEcsResourceDetectorSync', () => {
               clusterArn: 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:cluster/default',
               containerArn:
                 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:container/05966557-f16c-49cb-9352-24b3a0dcd0e1',
+              containerId: 'cd189a933e5849daa93386466019ab50-2495160603',
               launchType: 'fargate',
               taskArn:
                 'arn:aws:ecs:us-west-2:111122223333:task/default/e9028f8d5d8e4f258373e7b93ce9a3c3',