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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 ...
Verified User
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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.
RS
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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Natalia K.
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Python developer/ PHP Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

- There is a lot of documentation.

- Api is quite simple and easy to integrate with the build process

- Allows you to scale your containers up or down, so it meets your application's needs

- You can use Docker

- No extra charge

- Can be configured to use multiple Availability Zone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

EC2 Container Service is tightly integrated with other Amazon services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's easy to use and makes the life much easier when you need to automatically scale up or down the application. It is tightly integrated with AWS and even if the Amazon EC2 Container Service is free, it still cost a lot to run containers 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?

It is used for auto-scaling the existent projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

likitha j.
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Back End Web Developer
Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

the large amount of instances and programming tools they provide which make the work more scalable and elastic. applications on linux instances costs less than those on windows and also it helps in the overall costs.the best thing about EC2 is the version control and it does it in its own best way as follows:Closely coupled with the development environment Version control is the heart and soul of any source based application, and there's no reason not to put this on something like an EC2 server. The bandwidth usage is minimal. The guaranteed backed up aspect is a huge load off the restless mind, and the next time you have to run reports on the last three hundred and seventy five thousand revisions… it does not bring your real (or test) environment reaching to a rather annoying halt! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the cost and some things which makes some extra work and also covering the costs and allocating the resources on demand was tough. We should add our own security precautions like that on any server although it is with them and that's one of the main issues as we have to do the installation and maintenance of the features we installed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

use this first as a development environment i.e., experiment by all means and after you get full grip or figure out you know everything and also know how to do things with it then it would be lot better to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

maintaining the code on the cloud with all the resources we need and allocating the resources based on the demand and cutting costs if in case of no demand by suppressing the resources temporarily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Javier M.
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Software Developer
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

I, first of all, I like the great price and compatibility with the millions of AWS products out there. The system works flawlessly and continuously, regardless of traffic, time of day, or any other factor.

My employer is delighted with the price, and I'm delighted with the flexibility and uptime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I dislike the complexity and lack of user-friendliness required to deploy containers as a service, though I appreciate the flexibility this affords. I dislike the customized method for getting a "docker login" command, but I understand it's all for the security and flexibility of AWS identity management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If you find the options perplexing, you can always use it only as an image repository, way cheaper than the alternatives, and it allows you to have your own custom CI workflow. That's what we did in our company and we couldn't be happier with the end result, and the monthly bill. 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 host a great part of our business infrastructure there, from running some services to a simple private docker image hosting. We deployed our own custom continuous integration platform by using various components from AWS EC2 Container Service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vamshi P.
VP
Software Engineer 2
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

1. Makes it so easy to bring up an instance. It takes under 30 seconds to bring up a working ec2 machine which is just awesome!

2. Wide range of memory and compute configurations to choose from.

3. per second billing, pay only for what you use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Amazon web services has a really outdated UI.

2. With azure coming up with more cost effective plans, AWS need to innovate further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In our company we use EC2 to bring up instances and run Hadoop and Spark. Instances like r3.4xlarge are exceptional if you want to a powerful cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prayash M.
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Founding Engineer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Best things are that you can create a cluster out of spot instances, easily scale the instances in the cluster and the containers (tasks) in the service depending on CloudWatch alarms. Easy integration to CloudWatch logs. Options to choose between various deployment strategies like AZ, Binpack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECR has no way to edit tags from the console. And the only way to update the service is to create a new revision of task definition, which gets cluttered very soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There doesn't seem to be flexible, easy to scale and cheaper alternative to this. Especially if you use AWS for other workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Containerized deployment of applications. Scaling them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan C.
RC
Chairman & CEO
Defense & Space
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Large, cheap, and limitless storage that can be used for any purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Latency/speeds to retrieve or upload large amounts of data especially large data output (crash logs) from alpha and beta test programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Segregate your containers by use instead of trying to sort the data manually. 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 EC2 container service was used primarily to hold our crash dump log data in addition to general employee cloud storage. The cloud storage was for non-video storage including always-accessible document storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Super easy to start up. Trial period is friendly enough and gives you a good idea of what you can do scale wise. Interface for launching is quite easy and accessing and integration was simple enough (for what we had to do anyways). There is a TON of documentation written by amazon itself and more courses are getting added to Udemy, Coursera, pluralsight, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Small-medium stuff can be super expensive and not worth it compared to other solutions. I would say try to keep it super small or scale big to get a better deal. But it is on a “month to month” basis for most of the stuff so you can assess as you go if you don’t mind investing time into a pilot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Try it out! There’s a ton of tutorials and free or cheap trials you can use to see if it would work for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Individual governed websites, repos, environments for different users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MOHAMMED G.
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Software Engineer
Computer Software
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

AWS Service is really easy to use and solve all the problems related to the infrastructure. We are already using AWS for EC2 storage and routing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS is extremely functional, but its not reliable sometimes because it crashes and doesnt account for the loss.Additional level of virtualization, kills performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Run services on demand, without the need for managing servers.

Application deployment and with this service I reduced all the problem linked with infrastructure failure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very easy to setup, AWS provides lots of defaults that are easy to setup if you don't mind AWS tool chain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS ECS revolves around AWS tools. If you want to setup any external solution it's going to be hard. (e.g. load balancer best with ALB, logs best with Cloudwatch, etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Consider K8s, unless you want to be forced to use AWS Tools for everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Container Orchestration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael R.
MR
Software Engineering Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?

Integrates seamlessly with Elastic Beanstalk - providing a simple and effective containerised deployment solution.

Reliable and predictable when setup and working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Slow to startup, can be very difficult to debug startup issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Part of our automated CI/CD solution. Allows easy blue/green deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.