Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is well suited where you need the ease of managing the clusters by letting AWS do the stuff for you. Obviously, whenever you want to run the docker based workloads, it is always better to go for either AWS ECS or AWS EKS. If you are interested in staying at AWS only and don't want to be cloud-agnostic, then go for AWS ECS instead of AWS EKS. AWS ECS is cheaper than AWS EKS and also more managed by AWS and better integrated with other AWS services. If you want to run those workloads as serverless, then AWS ECS Fargate is the best option to go with. If you already have a Kubernetes based setup that you want to migrate to AWS, then go for AWS EKS instead of AWS ECS.

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Abdullah Khawer

DevOps Engineer

CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

One of the biggest advantages is the flexibility to change underlying EC2 instances. As the traffic or demand increases, we can easily change EC2 instances without any issues.
Amazon ECS APIs are extremely robust and one can start and stop containers by firing one post request only. So, it is not mandatory to keep the demo solutions up for every time. Just at the time of demo fire the command - make the container up and running - do the demo - down the container with API. A simple portal can control every container which helps non-technical (sales, marketing) to do the demo without keeping the solutions up for the entire time frame.

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Apurv Doshi

Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Container hosting, cloud virtualization
Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

A cleaner container service road map
It would be. nice to have more AI recommended cluster reductions
The UX could use some simplification

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Scott Kennedy

Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing

Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees

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Provide more options at lower costs
It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0.0,013,335 per hour per GB

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Editions & Modules

Edition

AWS Fargate Launch Type Model	Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.000111¹
Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model	Free
Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts	Free

per hour per storage
none

Additional Pricing Details

There is no additional charge for Amazon ECS. You pay for AWS resources (e.g., Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes) you create to store and run your application. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

Springs.io is unlike other cloud hosting providers. Our reactive servers dynamically resize based on demand, and you only pay for your consumption, not your provisioning. This means you can save money and not sacrifice performance.

Support Rating

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 8.6

Based on 7 answers

Support is relatively good, although the documentation sometimes is lacking, as well as outdated in our experience, especially when we initiated the process of using this service. But once we found how to assemble things, we haven't really required support from anyone at AWS, the service works without problems so we haven't had the need to contact support, which speaks well of how ECS is built.

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Francisco Javier Castaneda Marroquin

CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Global Bestlogistics Systems S.A. de C.V.Computer Software, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

If you are using AWS, you will be using Amazon ECS. I have also used Azure Container Instances and it works just as well in Azure as ECS does in AWS. It's really all a matter of what cloud provider you are utilizing. Because of the "Cloud Wars," it's difficult to measure cross-cloud connectivity, but I have had better luck remaining cloud agnostic in other cloud providers than AWS (Azure, GCP). Because of the sheer volume of tooling in AWS and inter-connectivity between them, it's almost easier to be fully AWS if you are using it in any kind of capacity.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We achieved minimum downtime.
The autoscaling kept the performance of the services great.
We saved money by running the workloads on AWS ECS in Fargate mode by having different settings for different services to save on the hardware configuration side as well as having scheduled tasks.

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Abdullah Khawer

DevOps Engineer

CallSign (Pvt.) Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued