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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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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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Features

Container Management

Features commonly found in Container Management software.

8.1
Avg 8.0
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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 Security and Isolation highest, with a score of 9.

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

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Pros and cons of Amazon ECS

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 06, 2025
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
5 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
  • 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.

ECS - The Simplest Way to Run Your Docker Images on AWS.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 18, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
3 years of experience
  • Run your docker image using Fargate instances.
  • Run your docker image using your EC2 instances.
  • Simple management with versioned task definition.
  • Built-in integration with AWS services like CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, IAM, etc.
Cons
  • There are still a handful of service-specific terms that you need to know before using the service.
  • Auto scaling configuration could be simpler.
  • Deployment could be faster, still takes a couple of minutes each time now.

Easy container orchestration in AWS

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 09, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
9 years of experience
  • Good search engine performance
  • Flexible index configuration
Cons
  • More human-readable API
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