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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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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Neat product"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

It is user friendly and easy to use. Good product and would recommend it to a team. The help feature is also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I believe that it could improve in moving files feature. It is not as easy as it should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Director of partner
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Great service"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Saves tons of money, scalable services etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing, it is greatttttttttttttttttttttt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
UR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Scaling works great"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I like the part that makes my life easier with autoscaling my instances up and down to keep me asleep at night. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If you have settings wrong you can bring down all instances when autoscaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Full feature set, comprehensive services. If you're looking at cloud start here"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

The services really allow you to transfer and think about how you can improve your infrastructure. EC2 is not about lifting and shifting your workloads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It expands too fast, there so much to keep up with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games
CC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Containers on aws"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

It’s easy integration with ecr, IAM and other aws services. Using cloud formation or terraform makes the automation of docker ceploent super easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Any aws service in a VPN’s needs a through the Internet connection , makes it a lil difficult to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"ECS"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Simple, if you have very limited number of services you are considering and don't deep bench of tech skills then ECS is the way to go and be successfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Lot of manula work, security of containers etc take time to implement and enforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to setup and use"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

ECS was very easy to setup. Got us quicky up and running so that we could spend more time using the container service than spend time building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECS is great service. There is nothing so far to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
CG
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"AWS ECS - Can't go wrong with it"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

The ability to launch containers at a scale and manage them with a nice web UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The pain of managing the cluster... I wish it was easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Awesome product with great flexibility"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

The ability to configure the Cluster based on your needs, and be able to integrate the creation using Cloudformation or Terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Only thing I dislike is the delay in autoscaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
AT
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Fast and Easy"
What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I like the managed service part of the solution in that I don't have to provision IaaS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used to dislike that you could not use service discovery while using the ecs-cli, but that is now supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

13 months

Average Discount

10%

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