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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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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Pros and Cons

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

Easy and quick to spin up containers. Speeds up deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

metrics and ASGs for the hosts. When new containers are needed, there is no ASG for the hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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better metrics with asg instances (hosts) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost and downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Convenience of not having to handle the EC2 instances is promoting my team's productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Need higher access to control the EC2 instances under the ECS cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solving the productivity problems by alleviating dependence on the infrastructure team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Create a task definition, create a service, define the amount of task and forget the rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not being able to reactivate the deactivated task definitions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Use it if you haven't already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost Optimization and reduced 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)?

Container management is easy. Setting up the container definitions and deploying them, then updating them is fairly straight forward and simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Console integration is still a bit clunky. It would be nice to see a more holistic view of active clusters. 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've moved most of our non-production workloads to Amazon ECS. This has allowed for quicker environment stand up and management. We've been able to speed up our development and testing overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The ease of submitting is great. Getting up and running could not be easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing -- It is very easy to use and works well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Esst of deployment is our biggest win from this produvt. 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 a managed container service that ties in with AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Instances still sometimes randomly die, especially when upgrading the agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Long running services that don't need full servers, but wouldn't work with lambda. 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 that task definitions and servies are easy to set up and scale, especially through CI and Infrastructure as Code solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Currently, to use load baslancing, you have to set a target group at only the creation of the service. I'd love to be able to change it as I go forward to new load balancing solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quick autoscaling through CPU and memory utilizations. Allows for greater elasticity and rightsizing. 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 like that I can see my containers on it and that it's linked to my aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The task definitions between ecs and fargate aren't always similar. This causes alot of pain when I use ecs instead of fargate or vice verso Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I would standard and write better tech syntax for ecs and provide more examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The speed and easy linking with ecr make it great to use. So very awesome! 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 like being able to rapidly spin up additional machines depending on our workload and needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I wish that the EC2s were able to sync better with OpsWorks, as I've noticed that you can do things like assign an EBS block to an instance under the EC2 page, it doesn't reflect on OpsWorks. 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 EC2s as hosts for web service endpoints, data processing machines, and analysis for running experimental code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

this allowed us to get out the door quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

little complex for the team it took awhile to get to a strong place to deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

this was in out path to prod deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.