Why Amazon ECS?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you to more efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. It deeply integrates with the AWS environment to provide an easy-to-use solution for running container workloads in the cloud and on premises with advanced security features using Amazon ECS Anywhere.
Benefits of Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS delivers the easiest way to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications at any scale on AWS
How it works
The diagram shows how Amazon ECS launches, monitors, and scales applications across flexible compute options with automatic integrations to other AWS services. Developers describe their applications and the resources it needs, and let Amazon ECS do the rest. Operators perform system operations such as creating custom scaling and capacity rules, and observe and query data from application logs and telemetry. Three sections display from left to right.
The first section has an illustration of two different personas, placed vertically, one below the other. The illustration on top of the section is titled “Developers”. The description says “Describe your application and the resources it needs, then let Amazon ECS do the rest. The illustration below is titled “Operators” and the description says “Create custom scaling and capacity rules. Observe and query data from application logs and telemetry.” Both illustrations have arrows that point towards the second section.
The second section has an illustration of an icon that represents Amazon ECS. The section is titled “Amazon Elastic Container Service”. There are two arrow pointing to different parts of the third section. The first arrow on top is titled “Configuration” and the second arrow below is titled “Deployments and scaling”.
The third section has two parts within in. The first part on top is placed in front on the arrow coming from the second section titled “Configuration”. This part is titled “Automated integrations with other AWS services”. Nearby icons show different AWS services: “Elastic Load Balancing”, “AWS Secrets Manager”, and “Amazon Elastic File System”.
The second part within the third section is placed in front of the arrow coming from the second section titled “Deployment and scaling”. The part is titled “Flexible compute options”. Nearby icons show different AWS compute options: “AWS Fargate”, “Amazon EC2 Graviton; Intel”, “Amazon ECS Anywhere”, “AWS Outposts, “AWS Local Zones”, and. “AWS Wavelength”. There is an arrow pointing towards this list from a nearby illustration on the right. This illustration is titled “Amazon Elastic Container Registry” and says “Build and store container images using Amazon ECR or other container images."