Don't understand error: Class 'App\Http\Controllers\... not found

You need to import the facade at the top of the file:

use Amazon;

You didn't tell it where to look so it is looking in the current directory, Controllers.

Tried Use Amazon; Use App\Amazon; Use Dawson\AmazonECS\Amazon;

I get class not found on all of them.

I have the facade in the alias section and the service provider in the providers section of app.config. It should be using the facade to find the class right?

I don't really understand how it finds the right files. For instance, all the built in facades are under vendor\laravel\framework\src\illuminate and the facade path starts right in with illuminate in app\config. Is there some step you have to do to tell it what src folder to look under for those facades.

The facade I am using says 'Amazon' => Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSFacade::class, but the file is really inside a src folder under the amazonECS folder.

The path doesnt matter. What is the namespace of the file?

Try this:

use Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECS;

namespace Dawson\AmazonECS;

Tried: use Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECS;, use Dawson\AmazonECS\Amazon; etc.

Error keeps saying it's looking under controllers folder for the class: App\Http\Controllers\Amazon

But it is in app\config as: 'Amazon' => Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSFacade::class,

the facade is:

class AmazonECSFacade extends Facade
{
    protected static function getFacadeAccessor()
    {
        return 'amazon-ecs';
    }
}

Edit: when I did the original install the docs said to run:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSServiceProvider" and I got this result: Nothing to publish for tag []. But I did copy the AmazonECSServiceProvider into app\providers directory (as well as copied the config file)

You dont need to copy the service provider. How about this:

use Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECS as Amazon;

Show me your app.php file. I have a feeling its not registered correctly.

use Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECS as Amazon; yields error: Non-static method Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECS::lookup() should not be called statically

here is the providers section of app.php:

'providers' => [

        /*
         * Laravel Framework Service Providers...
         */
        Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Broadcasting\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\FoundationServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Notifications\NotificationServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Pipeline\PipelineServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordResetServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Session\SessionServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class,
        Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class,
        Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSServiceProvider::class,

        /*
         * Package Service Providers...
         */

and the aliases section:

'aliases' => [

        'App' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
        'Artisan' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
        'Auth' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
        'Blade' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade::class,
        'Cache' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache::class,
        'Config' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::class,
        'Cookie' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie::class,
        'Crypt' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt::class,
        'DB' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::class,
        'Eloquent' => Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::class,
        'Event' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event::class,
        'File' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::class,
        'Gate' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate::class,
        'Hash' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash::class,
        'Lang' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang::class,
        'Log' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::class,
        'Mail' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::class,
        'Notification' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Notification::class,
        'Password' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password::class,
        'Queue' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue::class,
        'Redirect' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect::class,
        'Redis' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class,
        'Request' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request::class,
        'Response' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response::class,
        'Route' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::class,
        'Schema' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema::class,
        'Session' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session::class,
        'Storage' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::class,
        'URL' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL::class,
        'Validator' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::class,
        'View' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\View::class,
        'Amazon' => Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSFacade::class,

    ],

I really appreciate you taking the time to try and help me.

So it's use Dawson\AmazonECS\AmazonECSFacade