AWS services that support running containers in the cloud

It mainly comes down to the trade-offs between the level of control and ease of operations. Depending on the needs of your workloads and your teams’ comfort with containerization, you might decide to choose one of the three AWS offerings discussed in this section.

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Organizations that prefer to have maximum control and visibility of the container workloads may decide to run the entire stack on their own, in the compute instances provided by AWS. Technically speaking, nothing stops them from using tools such as Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, or even standard Docker clients to manage multiple containers within an EC2 instance. However, the broader question they should answer is whether they want to invest in developing orchestration at this level for productive use cases that quickly expand beyond the scope of what a single EC2 instance can manage. More often than not, the answer is no...