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Expert AWS Development

You're reading from   Expert AWS Development Efficiently develop, deploy, and manage your enterprise apps on the Amazon Web Services platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477581
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atul Mistry Atul Mistry
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Preface 1. AWS Tools and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Applications with AWS Services 3. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow 4. CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing 5. CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito 7. Evaluating the Best Architecture 8. Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing 9. Amazon EC2 Container Service 10. Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Amazon ECS


Amazon ECS is a container-managed service to run, stop, and manage Docker containers, quickly and easily on a cluster. It is highly scalable and you can host clusters on serverless infrastructure. You can also use Amazon EC2 to host your task to gain more control, and manage by using Amazon EC2 launch types, such as the Fargate launch type and the EC2 launch type.

With Amazon ECS, by using simple API calls you can launch and stop the container-based applications. You can also get the cluster state from a centralized service and give access to other Amazon EC2 features.

EC2 is a remote virtual machine where as ECS is a logical grouping of EC2 instances. If you launch an ECS instance without adding an EC2 instance, then it doesn't make any sense. ECS is a cluster of EC2 instances and it uses Docker to instantiate containers on these EC2 hosts.

With Amazon ECS, you will get a consistent deployment and build experience. It is also used to Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) the workloads, and...

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