So far in this book, we have spent a considerable amount of time focused on building infrastructure that supports your ECS clusters, detailing how to build custom Amazon machine images for your ECS container instances and how to create EC2 Auto Scaling groups that can dynamically add or remove ECS container instances to your ECS cluster, with chapters dedicated to managing the life cycle and capacity of your clusters.
Imagine not having to worry about ECS clusters and ECS container instances. Imagine that somebody else managed them for you, to the extent that you didn't even really know they existed. For some use cases, having a strong level of control over hardware selection, storage configuration, security posture, and other infrastructure related concerns, is very important; by now, you should have a pretty strong understanding of exactly...