Other CaaS services
Amazon ECS provides a versatile way of managing your container workloads. It works great when you have a smaller, simpler architecture and don’t want to add the additional overhead of using a complex container orchestration engine such as Kubernetes.
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ECS is an excellent tool choice if you run exclusively on AWS and don’t have a future multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud strategy. Fargate makes deploying and running your containers easier without worrying about the infrastructure behind the scenes.
ECS is tightly coupled with AWS and its architecture. To solve this problem, we can use managed services within AWS, such as Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It offers the Kubernetes API to schedule your workloads. This makes managing containers even more versatile as you can easily spin up a Kubernetes cluster and use a standard, open source solution that you can install and run anywhere you like. This does not tie you to a particular vendor. However...
