Before Kubernetes released its 1.0 version, Amazon Web Services proposed its own container orchestration technology called Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS provides an orchestrator that monitors, scales, and restarts your services when needed.
To run containers in ECS, you need to provide the EC2 instances on which the workload will run. You are not billed for the orchestrator's use, but you are billed for all the AWS services that you typically use (the underlying EC2 instances, for example, or an RDS database).
One of the significant benefits of ECS is its excellent integration with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. If you are already familiar with AWS services and invested in the platform, you will have less trouble understanding and managing ECS.
If you do not require many of the Kubernetes advanced features and its extensions, ECS may be a better choice as it's more straightforward and more comfortable to learn.
