Amazon ECS

CHOOSE IT WHEN

What job does it solve?

You want AWS-native container orchestration without operating Kubernetes.

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Where does it stop?

You need Kubernetes APIs and ecosystem compatibility, or the workload does not need containers.

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Closely related services

• AWS FargateServerless compute capacity for ECS or EKS containers; it runs tasks without you managing EC2 worker instances.
• Amazon EC2Resizable virtual machines in AWS with control over the operating system, instance type, storage, and networking.
• Amazon EKSA managed Kubernetes control plane for running Kubernetes workloads on AWS.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 15Choose where your code should run
• Lesson 16Match compute size and placement to the bottleneck
• Lesson 17Scale workers without overwhelming the database

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