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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

Average Discount

10%

Perceived Cost

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

I love how easy it is to spool up another server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I dislike that I dont have enought time to learn everytihng i want 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 utilize multiple ec2 instances to host our applications 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 use - this is deceptively simple to use and brings time to value. No instances/VMs! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Abstraction makes it difficult to convince our internal audit folks. Have a good story on this first! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Give it a try with a test workkload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fast deployment of packaged company apps. Our developers are all over containers and our Infrastructure has been slow to implement -n mainly due to tightly controlled environment. 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 a foundational piece of AWS, is the starting point for understanding the cloud adoption process. And AWS makes it really easy with all the predefined options for your setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Learning curve might be a little steep for people coming from traditional data-centers used to configure granularly according to their own criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hire consultants and/or train your people before engaging implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Containerization of on-premise app portfolio.

Cloud first app development. 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 been a faster process to port via ECS and is smooth configuration and simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If there are support for legacy app migrations that would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Docker based app migrations 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 how easy and quick it is to configure an instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I do not like how many options there are to choose from 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 use it for running analytics models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With ECS and Containers, I don't see why anyone will want to run their own traditional servers or data centers in the future. The speed and absolute simplicity and repeatability is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It seems too complicated, but isn't. It would be nice to have a translation type primer for those of us that have traditional experience to get over that complicated concern sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Application Containerization - Scaling deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

containers as tasks and make them as services with few commands away Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

monitoring is not customizable, persistent storage don't have the security needed for financial Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Speed to market , 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)?

What I like best is the light height nature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

no much.THis product has not much to say on dislike. 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 using this for our unicode generation for customer orders 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 ECS and its registry make it very simple to build microservices using docker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

nothing. The service works great and as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

moved long running tasks from lambda to 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)?

I like that ECS has built in integration to many different AWS services. Using it with an ALB + ECR gets you up and running with docker in production within inutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The service discovery and configuration story while improving is still limited, and lacking compared to the 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 are building microservices on top of ECS, and like the quick time to market and low operational costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.