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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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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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

I like that you can choose to manage it with EC2 servers or serverless Fargate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The awsvpc Networking Mode is supposed to make the networking easier but in my experience it was way more difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Consider whether you need to deploy your image in a server managed or serverless environment before starting to configure. Also make sure you understand how the networking works. 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 use docker heavily so using ECS to manage and deploy images is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Love the robust and rapid features of using containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Have not found anything that I do not like now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Much faster to build and deploy. We are in the beginning stages, but can see how this is the future of application management and deploy management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is easy to stoop up and convient to do POC for architect. It is cost effective and faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It does not contained the ec2 instance for some of the technology, like all oracle data integrator. 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 used it to solve problem for travel industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

if you aren't using kubernetes, or have workloads that are AWS native, ECS is a fantastic option for seamless integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

can't think of anything at this time. Really great solution for aws native Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

standard applications that can scale with an RDS backend..lots of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease of gettting started with either a simple single container deployment or multple containers and still being able to control secrets and configuration so you dont feel like you have your IP hanging out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I think this service is great for a starting step, once you get to a certain point its better to step into something like EKS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Give it a test drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease of getting developers started and self sufficient with setting up services they are creating. 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 how fast this deployments go. I love the healthchecks and autoredployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

steep learning curve in the beginning, I wish the actual ecs logs were a little easier to find and more clear. 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 moved off of servers to serverless infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

there are multiple options to choose and integrsate with S3 using intance profile. no keys required by the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

nreed more info on differences between fargate eks ecs bean stalk and other services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

grear product and environment creation is faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Relations
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Deployability and easy usage. also allow our applications to be bundled into container which can be scaled as needed based on useage. Once our software engineers figured out how to use this product it has been beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

some of the documentation was lacking when we first started using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

since this product is part of the AWS cloud offering, it works in the cloud. 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 to the cloud and to have a container for our apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I really the speed I can bring a instance up and with the flexibility of computer/ram resources depending on requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing really, it us working great for us. 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 do not have to worry about on-prem hardware issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

ECS enables my organization to scale our product while not worrying about the underlying infrastructure. ECS has definitely saved myself and team tons of time worrying about infrastructure and managing servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECS monitoring can definitely be improved, especially with respect to the Fargate launch type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECS is great, would recommend. Especially take a look at 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?

ECS helps scale our workload dynamically while not having to worry about setting up docker runtimes and clustering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.