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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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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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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.
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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)?

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 serverless option is really good , no need of patching or overhead to maintain server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One in a while it becomes issue when some error comes as ECS dont give direct access to inside server where containers are hosted but then we have logs option in cluster console which somehow helps to resolve 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?

Hosting a microservice application easily and cost benefits which we are getting is really good as ECS Fargate is very cheap, current i have deployed a microservice application and monthly ECS is costing us only almost 100 dollars which if we compare with direct EC2 approach specially for microservice based application is very cheap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it is easy to use and deploy. The deployment can be done with terraform or cloudformaton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sometimes, the error message is confusing. It is hard to debug 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 provides a easy way for us to migrate to containerized deployment. The setup is pretty straightforward and the doc is quite detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy integration with ECR and UI to define your service and resource requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECS makes it a little complicated to deploy it on external EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

ECS is making it easier to manage containers and resource allocation. Also easier to keep images in ECR and pull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Firstly it is better than EC2 compared to prices and solutions. Further, it allows the usage of docker, which is majorly used to make an application compatible with all devices. It efficiently manages the network and a cluster of applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The only disadvantage is doesn't organize the tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Management of the docker containers is the main benefit. it helps in running and managing the the applications faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (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 price and solutions offered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It doesn't integrate well with our existing api it does not organize the tasks automatically it could use ai to streamline its BI capabilities. I would like to see more information. 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's solving our container management service solutions and making our business run quicker and faster. Yes making us more productive. Business revenue has increased. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can use Amazon ECS to easily manage and deploy k8 clusters into Cloud along with this ECS is fully managed by AWS and it is scalable you can group your containers to moniter at the cluster level.

You can easily integrate with AWS Devops tools like codepipelines and codedeploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I don't see any dislikes on Amazon Elastic container services as it's one of the best. 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 helps us in managing the Docker containers and makes it production ready and we are using autoscaling features which makes the application highly available to the customers. 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 love using ECS to run virtual machines with specific software encoding to the cluster, which makes running different versions of software much easier and better to handle, moreover, we also run microservices such as k4 & K8 using ECS for faster delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Much harder to cancel a cluster of operations in any given particular order, one has to start from the top and take the FIFO approach for 2x results in deployment. 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 ECS to run different versions of the code with makes it easier for a different level of production code which can be separate from normal day to day code but can use the same parameters and version control 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 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 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.