Amazon ECS with EC2 and Fargate
Amazon 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 (VM)-based solution, or AWS Fargate, a serverless offering.
It is a highly scalable solution that deploys containers in seconds. It makes hosting, running, stopping, and starting your containers easy. Just as Kubernetes offers pods, ECS offers tasks that 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 place at the right time. ECS uses simple API calls to provide many functionalities, such as creating, updating, reading, and deleting tasks and services.
ECS also allows you to...
