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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Overview

What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows users to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows users to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.


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Recent Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews

vinayak b.
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vinayak b.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the best service to deploy and run a application on AWS"
See there is a option to deploy application on EC2 but why i like ECS is because it easily integrates with CICD tools like Jenkins and the fargate ...
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4.0 out of 5
"ECS: hassle-free containerised deployment"
it is easy to use and deploy. The deployment can be done with terraform or cloudformaton.
Ryan S.
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Ryan S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Amazon ECS"
It's highly scalable it supports Docker so that's great. Easy to cluster applications and manage networks on the cloud. It's better than E2 in its ...

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Straight forward to instantiate containers. You can define the image definitions and modify them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Nothing much that I dislike. It is difficult when the service is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Excellent cloud service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have deployed our company’s data ingestions and KPI reporting in ECS. Lots of cost savings when compared to data center based severs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

It saves a lot of server costs and saves a lot of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I have not found any cons as of now as it's easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are deploying applications to multiple servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

- Easy to use and integrate if you are familiar with docker ecosystem

- It has a good documentation when you are using it for the first time

- It is not very expensive and it depends on your machine which you had bought from EC2 portal to integrate with ECS

- You can always upgrade your ec2 machine and your integration with ECS doesn't fail so this is how robust ECS is.

- Load balancing is done so beautifully and its integration with other AWS products is very nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

- A little expensive than google cloud but we have used AWS from starting so we are using this

- ECR has a little more steps to integrate it with ECS so if you are not familiar with whole ecosystem then it can cause you difficulties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):

- If you are already using the AWS ecosystem then don't think twice and use this container service. It is the best you can get if you are familiar with AWS ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have lots of small demos and website hosted on AWS so we dockerised them and upload it to ECR. Then we integrate ECR with ECS and update the same. We then update our nginx and connect our port with our EC2 machine and that's it our demo is up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

One of the top class cloud based service available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

More user-friendly to navigate and understand the functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Makes it easy with flexible scale and usability to fit your situation and needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

- Almost similar to Docker

- One of the best load balancing is done by ECS

- Inter AWS products are connected so well

- Scalable

- Memory is well optimised so cost is also not much

- Billing is very minimum Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

- Restarting the container is very hectic task

- Some of the terms are very confusing, you have to read the documentation carefully Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):

If you want to have similar service like docker on cloud then ECS is the one to go for it. With your eyes closed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

- I create many small demos for my team and to host it on ECS is very easy and accessible

- Our one of the main product is on this ecosystem so it is also very scalable and our customer are very happy with the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I have used Microsoft Azure Cloud services and Amazon cloud services (AWS) mostly. So I will state my differences, advantages of using ECS over others.

- Better documentation

- Custom Docker like ecosystem (ECR)

- Pay as You Go

- More Scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

AWS ecosystem is like an awesome eco system where one you get used to it, you always prefer the same channel, similarly like Apple's ecosystem in mobile phones. One of the main thing I dislike is its ECR integration. It has no editable feature also, when I upload the latest container it starts pointing to new container but it should continue to the last one. Also a minor update in configuration require whole new task definition. so it become overhead sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Flexible

Easy to scale

Immutable

Azure has very old and unintuitive UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deployment of application on cloud

Scalability for the same

Multiple micro services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

As usual one of the important factor with ECS and ECR (they both go hand in hand) is how easy it is to get start. Compared to kubernetes or opneshift lot of less complex to get start and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

If same image needs a different configuration of memory and CPU its not possible to achieve within same cluster. We had to find workaround to achieve this.Also I think ECS is not as matured as Kubernetes, but at the same they may not intend to make ECS as rich as Kubernets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):

This service is very easy to get start and setup. Once you have this integrated with your CICD tools, deployment can be really simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have several kind of backend services which run on docker containers and ECS is used to run those. We simply create the image and push it to ECR from our on-prem Jenkins. ECS automatically picks up the latest container to run the process. Overall it has been really easy to work with ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

It's easy, can be configured both in EC2 mode and as Fargate (to avoid coping with the underlying nodes).

It's solid, reliable, and quite straightforward to configure and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

To configure things you need to set a lot a prerequisites. This reflects in the complexity of the required Cloudformation scripts when you want to deploy workloads in ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

You can spin workloads as containers with practically no effort. Using Infra as a Code you can have identical environments for all stages of the CD pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I love the fact that ECS allows for easy storage, we have been using AWS ECS for over 5 years now and it is most reliable and secured, i also enjoy the fact that there is a daily backup of my entire data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

It is not like your traditional hosting dashboard, you need to really understand what you are looking at before you can configure and use. You might even need an AWS certified engineer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):

If you want reliability then use AWS ECS, it is fast and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has allowed us to move servers to the fastest depending on our location, we can also quickly deploy new apps or features in no short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Its easy and fast deploy

works seemlessly with Amazon and external APIs that is available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Compatibility with windwos based microservices

Automation with external windows agent

security between containers needs to be embedded as part of the design otherwise the app can be vulnerable from security point of view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):

Try using Fargate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

faster app deployment

automation

Blue green deployment

Ofcourse cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.