Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you deploy, manage, and scale Docker containers on AWS. It integrates deeply with other AWS services, providing a highly available and scalable platform for running containerized applications…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Amazon ECS was created to address the growing operational burden of deploying, scaling, and managing Docker containers across a cluster of servers. Prior to ECS, teams using containers on AWS had to manually set up and maintain complex orchestration software, configure networking, load balancing, and monitor infrastructure, diverting significant resources from application development to infrastructure management.
Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Related technologies

AWS Fargate
Docker
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
AWS CodeBuild
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CodePipeline
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Notable users

Expedia
Capital One
Duolingo
Amazon.com
Liberty Mutual
GE