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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

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13 months

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

Easy to spin up. Easy access and connection. Public accessiability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Too many choices, maybe can make it easier to choose the appriopriate sizing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scaleability and global. 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 work at a large company that does everything everywhere - multiple clouds and on-prem. ECS allowed us to meet the need for developers to use containers while we were sorting out the overall strategy across all locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Only that we didn't immediately go to 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?

Managed container service... So much better than building out on premise infrastructure to support this need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

support for serverless , autoscaling and load balancing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

invocation time and max is 50mb and if we push the code for 600mb it diesnt take it.

need to be more scalable and auto provisioning suppport Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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should also include support for other vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

deloying high end scalable ios apps. most suitavble for test flight and ios deployments .

starts ups and 500 fortune companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

How simple the service is to use and get running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Breaking monolithic applications in to 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)?

Very simple to set up. Lots of controls in place to verify that your installation went well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Still have to manage your own infrastructure. Charged when the service is up and charges can increase even if you aren't using it. Might be better to use a managed 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?

Hosting a web service backend. Very easy setup, didn't have to manage OS updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I haven't done that much ECS specific stuff myself, have mostly used it together with Convox, but that's one thing I like I guess, that you can abstract over it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not specific to ECS, but AWS has so many services and it can sometimes be hard to get an overview and find your way around the AWS Console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Deploying 12 factor microservices 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 scalability and ease of use and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

not much to like is is a great service an not much improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cloud infrastruture deploeyment 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 can run my dockers on this service also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the orchestration part is hard to get around Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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n/a Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

multiple apps on a single comntainer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Containerization is the new normal for application deployment, and ECS has helped us move legacy applications to the cloud. We've found it to be easy to use, scalability and boasts high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is a bit of a learning curve - it really depends on having a strong development team that writes good code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Go through the training 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 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)?

With ECS it allowed us to scale out faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

no ssh on fargate to troubleshoot the docker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

scaling using code rather than ec2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.