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AWS ECS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is AWS's native container orchestration service.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Amazon's container orchestration service
Who should look elsewhere
AWS lock-in
Pros
- +Simple for AWS users
- +No cluster management (Fargate)
- +Deep AWS integration
- +Cost-effective for AWS workloads
- +Less complex than EKS
Cons
- −AWS lock-in
- −Less portable than Kubernetes
- −Limited to AWS
- −Fargate can be expensive
- −Fewer third-party tools
Key features
- ✓Serverless with Fargate
- ✓EC2 launch type option
- ✓Deep AWS integration
- ✓Auto scaling
- ✓Service discovery
- ✓Load balancer integration
- ✓IAM security
- ✓CloudWatch monitoring
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECS | $0 | month | Container orchestration; Task definitions; Service management |
| Fargate | — | month | Serverless containers; No EC2 management; Per-second billing |
| EC2 | — | month | Full control; EC2 pricing; Spot instances available |