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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

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

I love using ECS because it's easy to deploy and manage k8 & k4 clusters into the cloud, Moreover we get faster scalability of containerised application for production use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's harder to terminate virtualized containers in a specific order through which we have to delete a cluster first more so if deployment speed could increase that would build 2x faster for production level code 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 Amazon ECS to run different versions of the production-level code with different node.js releases. Moreover, we could transform the parameters of a special VM for use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS has all the things, you just name it AWS has it be it redis, elasticsearch, s3, ec2 machine learning, database, what not. And it offers the best of everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Some time cost of services becomes very costly, and it is very complex to learn AWS flow, for instance, if I want to deploy Docker on AWS, I will have to setup ecr, ec2, security group, and many other things which are not easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yes, of course Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

In AWS you can find everything whatever you want, they have it all, so I don't have to go to any other server to get my things done. So It is very handy if you are building something very complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS cloud helps with an extensive documentation and support center. The best thing is easy access to all the resources, so a novice can also easily get started Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

There is not much room for dislike. However, some services such as ECS lacks features that could make them easier to use. SQS can be made better by providing event sourcing natively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Cloud:

Start small, read the documentation. Try to go serverless and do not mix environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS helps cloud telephony by providing SIP termination at the cloud level, helping us to scale in real time and handle millions of calls per day. It's IAM allows us to manage users easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Works really well, I can integrate with all kinds of applications whether it's a small application or a big one. I have used alds but I feel that aws storage service fills all the gaps. Can easily integrate with docker and microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Compared to azure services I feel like the UI is not that user-friendly and is a bit complicated to use and understand some features along with the terms they use. Debugging can be a log difficult in elastic container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For small-scale applications amazon elastic container makes more sense to use and it connects with almost all the services very easily. Cluster management is very easy and also cost wise elastic a lot better compare to other 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)?

- ECS is integrated with AWS, so you get all the great features like security and stability.

- ECS has all the parameters that Docker uses, so it is easy to replicate same container in both local and ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has some learning curve because of the way it integrates with AWS. You need to have IAM roles and setup networking to get this working. It is also expensive as hell!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having a way to contanerize your application not only makes path to production easy, it is super fast and reliable now. I love how I can test on the same container in local and then deploy that in production without worrying about compatibility and bare bones servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The on-demand pricing option is the best. Pay as you go basis.

Also, the documentation helps to get started with any new service required.

The monitoring service has quite a good feature.

Organizing resources deployed using cloud formation stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The free tier could provide more service options for beginners.

More transparency in the upfront cost.

Developer support can be improved.

The Developer forum can be improvised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Cloud:

Go through the AWS official documentation before getting started with any services. Understand IAM roles and how can you use them to secure access to your infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

The dependency on the physical server has saved a lot of costs and maintenance overhead for both onsite and offsite teams.

Basic and strong security features that comes with AWS services by default has been very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The AWS services are excellent and simple to use; Amazon S3 offers safe, reliable, and very scalable object storage, This is why I like this platform and have cheap compared to other Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

AWS needs to make improvements to its cloud construction tool and interface. The UI's inconsistent offerings are just amateurishly exceptional. I think this is only the thing that AWS need to improve else fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Always double check the details before creating the instance and also very secure in perspective of security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

To make it possible for enterprises to expand without installing their own servers, AWS must lower the cost. Only then can it function more effectively and more easily. 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 best part of using Amazon ECS is it's a fully managed service and also scalable using ASG(Autoscaling group), So you never have to worry about your application load and performance. And you can also create ECS clusters to group your containers based on the usage and monitor it from the cluster level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is not much to dislike, but the learning curve is a bit steep as it needs to be configured efficiently for best performance and optimal usage. And also, it would be great if it could support all container services. We have different services for different container services like AKS for Kubernetes. 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 running the RESTful microservices of our client applications as Docker containers in the Amazon ECS. We are using autoscaling and ECS clusters for organizing and monitoring the services across different verticals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ketan B.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

SNS, SQS helps lot for Pub sub implemention

Auto scaling along with Aurora group helps to build large & scalable cloud application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Nothing as such but AWS UI & training can be improved further Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can build scalable, reliable & secure software utilizing various AWS services that too on pay as you use model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

scalability, durability, reliability, easy to implement for any one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Some time gets confused with AWS documentation while implementing anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cost: pay per use model is cost-effective.

Scalability: Auto scaling, CloudFront, S3, Route53, SQS, SNS, ECS, Arora

Storage: S3, DynamoDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.