Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest and most popular cloud platform available today. AWS provides a few different ways of running Docker workloads on their cloud. You can use Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Container Service (ECS), or Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). Each of these products have different capabilities, which allow you to do different things. None of these products are Docker native, and require you to learn a new set of tools and libraries in order to get your Docker application up and running.
Docker for AWS uses the same cloud-native tools that these products use, but provides a more Docker-native experience. Once Docker for AWS is set up, you can use the same Docker tools and APIs that you already know about to deploy your Docker workload to AWS.
