Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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 highly available and reliable where we run our production workloads.

At my company we build lots of internal applications for various functions such as operations (warehouse management things), marketing, customer service etc. Each of these applications supporting their respective function(s) has a variable amount of users that may need to use the application at any given time. With ECS, we are able to scale our availability based on the amount of users fluidly.

We are using Amazon ECS to run our application services as Docker containers in the clusters in various environments. It is being used by the whole organization. Some of our stuff is running on Amazon EKS as well. We are mainly using Amazon ECS to run our application. Amazon ECS gives us an environment that is mostly managed by AWS to ease our job.

We are currently using Elastic Containers as the base for some of our services, as well as for other companies to deploy the software we maintain and develop for them. Mainly it helps to build solutions that are more reliable, with little complexity and helps leverage the experience in the market related to containers (Dockers).

We use Amazon ECS to host our multiple web solutions on a single EC2 machine. These solutions require different components, environments, and software to run smoothly. However, they might have a conflict with each other. One way is to host them on separate machines and another way is to use Amazon ECS which provides container service to create a separate environment for each solution. We use Amazon ECS to solve this problem effectively and we use it across the organization.

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.

The Amazon ECS is used by all the people from the development team here. The structure helps us a lot. In Amazon ECS we can run all of our backend projects and some tests. It is not so simple to configure but when you do it, it becomes a very easy tool to work. Amazon offers other features that are very important to us, like Amazon RDS.