Cannot launch interactive session in Windows IIS Docker container - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm using the AWS "Windows Server 2016 Base with Containers" image (ami-5e6bce3e).
Using docker info I can confirm I have the latest (Server Version: 1.12.2-cs-ws-beta).
From Powershell (running as Admin) I can successfully run the "microsoft/windowsservercore" container in interactive mode, connecting to CMD in the container:
docker run -it microsoft/windowsservercore cmd
When I attempt to run the "microsoft/iis" container in interactive mode, although I am able to connect to IIS (via browser), I am never connected to the interactive CMD session in the container.
docker run -it -p 80:80 microsoft/iis cmd
Instead, I simply get:
Service 'w3svc' started
Using another Powershell window, I can:
docker container ls
...and see my container running.
Attempting to attach locks up and never returns.
I have since switched regions and found that there are different AMI's on each region:
us-east-1: ami-d08edfc7
us-west-2: ami-5e6bce3e
...both of these have the same result.
Relevant links used:
AWS announcement and simple Docker example
MSDN simple Docker example
MSDN IIS Docker example
Update
Using the following link I was able to create my own Dockerfile based off the server base and installing IIS and this seems to work fine.
custom Dockerfile

Answer 1

This is not an issue with AWS AMI's, it was due to the way the Microsoft IIS Dockerfile was written / being new to Docker.
Link to Microsoft's IIS DockerFile
The last line (line 7):
ENTRYPOINT ["C:\\ServiceMonitor.exe", "w3svc"]
Difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT
So since this Dockerfile uses ENTRYPOINT, to launch an interactive powershell session, use the following command:
docker run --entrypoint powershell -it -p 80:80 microsoft/iis
Note that it seems that the "--entrypoint" flag needs to be after run, as this won't work:
docker run -it -p 80:80 microsoft/iis --entrypoint powershell
Here is another reference link regarding ENTRYPOINT and CMD differences