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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Overview

What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers.

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Recent Reviews

My personal experience with ECS.

8 out of 10
November 20, 2023
We use ECS to run our containerised applications and on fargate instances so we don't need to worry about managing EC2 instances. It's …
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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
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Pricing

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AWS Fargate Launch Type Model

Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.000111

Cloud
per hour per storage

Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model

Free

Cloud

Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts

Free

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $0 per hour per GB
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Product Details

What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Video

A Quick Introduction to Amazon ECS by Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) starts at $0.0013335.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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December 07, 2019

If you are using containers and AWS, you're likely already using it!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon ECS is being used company-wide and is being used in many different capacities. We utilize our AWS environment for both production services as well as for testing and research capabilities. ECS is being used across instances using Fargate or just as a mechanism with generic ec2 instances.
Pros and Cons
  • Well Integrated - As with the majority of AWS services, ECS works will with any other AWS product (Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM, etc).
  • Easy to get started with - It is easy to get started building just about anything in AWS and using ECS is no exception to this rule. Be careful though -- AWS lets you do/build anything in any way you could think of and allowing yourself to shoot yourself in the foot is no exception.
  • Another AWS Service - While AWS has a service for just about everything, that is also a negative point. There is no service that does 4 out of 4 things you need. This service does 3 out of 4, another service does the fourth thing you need and another two things that the other service does.
  • With AWS things in general, it's really hard to remain cloud agnostic. Keep that in mind.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are containerizing your applications and using AWS, you are more than likely using or should be using ECS. It's a great service and if you aren't using Kubernetes, it's definitely worth giving it a shot.
Alternatives Considered
  • Azure Container Instances
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.
Support Rating
8
AWS support is usually pretty good at solving issues and pretty quick with communication, but buyer beware - this is a market where what you are paying matters. The higher the support tier, as with anything else, the better service you receive.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Fargate, AWS Lambda
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