Pros and cons of Amazon ECS
Rating: 8 out of 10
January 06, 2025
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- It takes care of the deployment life cycle by using just a configuration file
- It takes care of the scaling as well and monitors the health of the services
- It does the version management as well and if we need to roll back to a previous version, we need not do it via SCM tools like git, we can simply deploy a previous version from ECS console itself.
Cons
- The user interface sometimes seem to be confusing and cumbersome. It can be improved so that people can understand clearly which section to go for which functionality.
- When a container fails, the error logs are not readily available on the ECS console. If it can be provided it would be easier to debug from there itself instead of going to our log manager.
- Sometimes the old EC2 containers become stale and need to be restarted manually. There should be a notification for such scenarios. We have mostly been finding it out on our own and then fixing it by manually restarting EC2 instances.
- If this could be proactively monitored and notified, it would be great.