Amazon ECS with EC2 and Fargate

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration platform that AWS offers. It is simple to use and manage, uses Docker behind the scenes, and can deploy your workloads to Amazon EC2, a virtual machine-based solution, or Amazon Fargate, a serverless solution.

It is a highly scalable solution that helps you host your containers in minutes. It makes it easy to host, run, stop, and start your containers. Similar to how Kubernetes offers pods, ECS offers tasks, which help you run your container workloads. A task can contain one or more containers, grouped according to a logical relationship. You can also group one or more tasks into services. Services are similar to Kubernetes controllers, which manage tasks and can ensure that the required number of replicas of your tasks are running in the right places at a time. ECS uses simple API calls to provide many functionalities, such as creating, updating, reading, and deleting tasks and services...