--- title: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 283 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 283 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-26' parent_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Container Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 283 ## About Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. By eliminating the complexities of infrastructure management, Amazon ECS enables development teams to focus on building and innovating applications without the overhead of managing servers or clusters. Key Features and Functionality: - Flexible Deployment Options: Amazon ECS supports running containers on Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate for serverless compute, and on-premises servers through Amazon ECS Anywhere, providing versatility across different environments. - Integrated Security: The service offers robust security features, including application isolation, IAM roles, automated patching, and encrypted storage, ensuring that applications are protected throughout their lifecycle. - High Performance and Scalability: Amazon ECS automatically scales applications to meet varying demand, maintaining consistent performance and high availability without manual intervention. - Deep AWS Integration: Seamless integration with other AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allows for a cohesive and efficient development and deployment experience. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon ECS addresses the challenges of managing containerized applications by providing a fully managed service that abstracts the underlying infrastructure complexities. This allows development teams to deploy and scale applications rapidly, reduce operational overhead, and enhance security. By leveraging Amazon ECS, organizations can accelerate their application development cycles, improve resource utilization, and focus on delivering business value without the need to manage the intricacies of container orchestration. ## Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **deployment ease** of Amazon ECS, enabling quick transitions from development to production effortlessly. (2 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** of Amazon ECS, enabling efficient workflows and enhanced productivity across services. (2 reviews) - Users value the **various integration services** offered by Amazon ECS for building efficient solution software and CI/CD pipelines. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **automation capabilities** of Amazon ECS, simplifying deployment and scaling of containerized workloads. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **reliable auto-scaling** of Amazon ECS, simplifying deployment and maintaining performance during production traffic. (1 reviews) - Auto-Scaling (1 reviews) - Cloud Integration (1 reviews) - Cluster Management (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integration with CI/CD tools** in Amazon ECS, enhancing deployment efficiency and reducing maintenance tasks. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of managing containerized workloads** with ECS, enhancing productivity and integration with CI/CD tools. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Amazon ECS **expensive** , especially due to complex pricing, networking setups, and inconsistent support response times. (2 reviews) - Users report **bug issues** with the new UI, experiencing automatic logout when navigating through various console pages. (1 reviews) - Users find **cluster stability challenging** , with issues in pricing, configuration, and service discovery affecting overall reliability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of pricing and network configuration in Amazon ECS challenging for sustained workloads. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** of Amazon ECS challenging, especially with networking and service discovery configurations. (1 reviews) - Users express concerns over the **cost issues** with AWS services like Lambda, noting the pricing can be high. (1 reviews) - Users face occasional **downtime issues** with ECS due to limited server access, though logs can aid in troubleshooting. (1 reviews) - Users report **error management challenges** due to limited server access, though logs in the cluster console aid troubleshooting. (1 reviews) - Lack of Control (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) ## Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews ### 1. Deploy code to containers the Amazon way **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Spinning up more tasks once they're created is simple. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** You must use the AWS code repository system to deploy code. Keeping the ECS agent up to date on servers is a pain. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Containerizing worker processes to horizontally scale. ### 2. Excellent fully managed Container Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mitesh P. | Technical Lead, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** - Managed & scalable service to run containerised applications - Ability to select from large variety of machines. Memory Optimised, Graphics Optimised, Compute Optimised - Allows to be configured to use multiple AZs - Compatibility with other AWS Services - Can be integrated easily with ELB, VPC, IAM, ECR, etc - Very easy to scale containers **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** - To update a minor thing in the service, we need to create a new revision of task definition, which gets cluttered very soon. - Understanding of Services, Task Definition, Container repository might be difficult for a beginner. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Good service to consider to run containerized service, instead of having pain of managing docker. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to containerize most of the our application & able to deploy it on ECR. ECR reduces our effort to manage & scale docker. ### 3. ECS is great - if you really need it. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dave B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Power, flexibility, customizability in setting up multiple containers on a set of EC2 instances. Great to deploy to one or more instances (kinda sorta easily), and fairly comprehensive providing information about the instances to which you're deploying.Ties in pretty nicely with the rest of Amazon ecosystem. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Lots of configurability at the expense of ease of use. Detecting problems during deployment is not always intuitive and it's easy to get in a state where your deployments are thrashing. Debugging an instance in this case is frustratingly difficult. And honestly - sometimes it's easy to get tunnel vision and build a bunch of services on EC2 where maybe serverless or some other technology might be a better fit. Finally - working with ECR locally is a massive pain - especially if you're working in a secure environment. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** It's definitely powerful - but it's not the most easy-to-use system, if that's what you're after. Be aware if you are thinking of moving to it. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building internal tools for analysts. We chose ECS because we were trying to orchestrate multiple containers to build out our tool with isolated dependencies to support security needs for our application, as well as our users needs.. ### 4. ECR - Straightforward containers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen M. | DevOps Automation Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** ECR is no nonsense containerization. K8s is awesome, but it also has a steep learning curve. Anyone with a basic understanding of linux and containers can build a successful ECS deployment. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The fact the ECS is so straightforward also means it is missing some of the more advanced features found on platforms such as k8s. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Its AWS. Its immutable. Setup an account and play around. There is nothing better than hands on learning. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use ECS to host an entire immutable microservices-based enterprise SaaS application. Its ease of use and ability to integrate with both AWS products as well as external services made it the perfect choice for our needs. ### 5. Deployment at ease **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay M. | Associate Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** - All the necessary Documentation is provided - Great Docker Support - No Hidden Charges - Very Easy to Scale containers up and down **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** - Tightly Coupled with EC2 - Complexity and Lack of user-friendliness required to deploy containers as a service **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 **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 ### 6. Seamless containerized deploys **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis C. | Sr. Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** You just have to set up 3 things: - Create a service and select the cluster where it will run - Build a docker image and upload to ECR (or other third party registry) - Build and deploy a task definition that specifies where the docker image should be grabbed from Done, you have your application running in a containerized environment based on the parameters of your task definition. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** There might be a lot of manual overhead setting up the service and task definitions, but this is solved if you use AWS Fargate. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Launching multiple micro-services in the same staging/production clusters. Benefit: fast independent development across teams. ### 7. Amazon ECS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Fantastic, simple, and easy to use to get Docker container scheduling in the cloud. If you're looking to get something running quick in a hosted environment (integrated with the rest of Amazon's infrastructure), ECS makes it very easy to get started. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Would be great to have more of the "advanced" features already present in k8s, though it seems AWS has announced support for k8s recently, so excited to see where this leads. ECS is still a fantastic way to get started with container management in the cloud though. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Recent integration with k8s was super appreciated. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple, integrated management of containers in the cloud (and to a greater degree, containerization as a whole), has helped us reduce costs tremendously over a raw EC2/AMI based approach. Also has helped our development team be language agnostic - since all of that is spec'ed out within the container. ### 8. ECS Power! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor S. | Senior Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The simplicity. Task definitions, placement groups, services, tasks... It may sound daunting, but it really is simple. The inter-connectivity of the services and the ability to write advanced scripts off the ECS api allow for a simple approach to complex problems and micr-service architectures. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I would have like to have seen a more shared solution between ECS and EKS, having to choose one or the other feels dirty. It would be nice if there was seamless integration between them. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migrating legacy monolithic apps running on elastic beanstalk to ECS. Scalability, predictability and disaster recovery are so much easier. ### 9. Fastest way to grow an environment. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like how easy it is to use. You can choose from many different AMIs and have server up and running in minutes. The ability to quickly turn on a server and have it start servicing users is worth all the money. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The cost, if you have a server running that serves little to no purpose, this is a very expensive way to run. EC2 should not be treated like servers you run in a data center. they should be treated like cattle. You could kill them tomorrow and have not issues. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to solve a way to deploy our service in a quick and effective way. This allowed us to move from 6 months turn up to two weeks. a huge win for my company ### 10. Easy Setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** stephen f. | Head of DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Best thing about ECS is the ease of setup through cloudformation, It is a full featured container scheduler that satisfies all my needs. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** As with all things AWS, the console for cloudwatch metrics that show container and cluster health, resource utilisation is not great compared to dedicated products. That said it is cloud native and worth the additional setup of bespoke monitoring in elasticsearch. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster deployments. Containers spin up faster than EC2. Containers are testable on the dev machine and in CI/CD without the need to spin up a fully fledged VM ### 11. Easy to start and maintain **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg K. | Associate Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like how it simplifies and manages many aspects of running services. In particular, I like using Fargate because I no longer need to worry about instances and auto scaling groups. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I found it somewhat difficult at times to find the documentation I was looking for. I think it would be helpful to have a more centralized location for finding documentation relating to ECS. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am running services on the cloud that back our public facing websites. ECS has made it easier to manage the scaling of these services. ### 12. ECS total newb impressions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William W. | Software Engineer III, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** ECS has been very easy to understand and learn. I've been primarily experimenting with it as well as Docker and the learning curve hasn't been bad at all. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** At this point, I am unsure what I would even be missing with this product as I am pretty new to it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** ECS seems like a very good offering for container services after primarily having compared it with on premise and Azure offerings. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently I am experimenting and seeing how it works to help decide what business problems would be best served. ### 13. Deploy application quickly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James Z. | Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** We migrated docker containers deployed in EC2 earlier, and gradually migrated to AWS ECS and also FARGATE, it drastically reduced the time of deployment, it has monitoring and logging integrated, much easier than starting from scratch. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** We like most of the features provided by AWS ECS, but when we starts to migrate more workload to serverless, we fell AWS ECS is not as straighforward as Kubernets, it lack deployment tools for large application. When comes to troubleshoot, it's little tedious. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and easy deployment. ### 14. Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve D. | Principal Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** ECS makes it easy to configure, deploy, and manage your containers. The auto-scaling is better than straight EC2, the deployments are simplified with cloudformation, and the product is much simpler than Kubernetes. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I do not like that you cannot register a container with multiple load balancers. This is a big problem, but nobody seems to want to fix it. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to deploy, manage, and scale our ad servers as fast and reliably as possible on a variety of instance sizes. ### 15. performance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** it is good for doing poc, development and test. Fargate is much likely to next step for that. ECS has given small test capacity and also fast release and test **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** some of work load is slow to launch new container, what happens when we try to scal this using some event and monitoring system, it takes time to scal. Slowness is very noticable and cannot be accepted **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** business probles like, poc, develop and test are easy and fast to solve. Benefit being low cost, smaller in size and also quick to deploy. release cycles can be reduce in 10 fold by using containers which is incredibale for r&d company ### 16. Good experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I find cloudformation to be pretty easy to digest and understand. I am excited to see what new features will be released. I really like using the yaml syntax over json!! **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Sometimes the validation rules can get in the way of our deploy pipeline. I look forward to better documentation around errors and linting procedures that will allow me to deploy quicker and easier. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to deploy third party vendor software and able to scale it across multiple availability zones. Also trying to keep it secure from the outside world. The benefit is that we can control a lot of the network with a very little amount of configuration ### 17. The easy way to manage your docker **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The implementation of Fargate and ability to management container from console as well as CLI **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** No way to the hard limit CPU. The console on the Task Defination listing page for searching is really bad. After typing the keyword and press enter, the result sometime will not display and you have to keep clicking to next page until you found the task defination or not. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buidling microservice with docker ### 18. VM Flexibility **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** We have reduced by 99% the time to launch a new instance. This reduce a lot the time to the OPS team to do repeated tasks. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** We don't have something specific that we don't like in our company. However, a negative impact to our business could be maintenance windows, where we have to stop/start an instance to accomodate an alert and move to another hypervisor. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** No recommendations. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce time to launch new VMs. Avoid the traditional way of buying hardware by followinf a specific procurement process. We have increased scalability. We have the ability to support near realtime all internal teams as well as business functions. ### 19. Great service with a few limitations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Fargate removes the overhead of managing EC2 servers (patching, managing, handling disk storage, etc) and provides great uptime for our services. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** There are a few limitations that prevent us from moving our entire environment to Fargate; To note is inability to attach EBS or EFS storage, inability to run containers in privileged mode, disk storage limit to 10GB. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running quite a few production workloads using Fargate and it really helps us remove the overhead of managing our Docker deployments. Fargate actually resolved a few of the issues with classic ECS, such as reduced networking performance, having to manage ports for our services, etc. ### 20. Great tool to manage your infrastructure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** With ECS we are able to easily deploy our containers to production without any downtime to our customers. THe loggin capabilities and the high availability options allows us to maintain an almost zero downtime and anytime deploy **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** There seems to be a high learning curve when it comes to setting up and adding features like loggin our adding new conatiners **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** More documentation to get up to speed. also on how to add different features like login, monitoring, it is not readily apparent **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a REST API fully deployed in production using docker and containers, with cloudwatch logging and monitoring ### 21. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** omar s. | infastructure engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is very easy to use and help full to all of my company **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** nothing much i dislike about it, it is a great service and i think all companies should use it **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is making the working flow alot easier and we are getting less and less complains about it ### 22. ECS is simple and just works. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Newspapers | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The ease to get started with services and the graceful failure/management of tasks with zero downtime to the services as a whole. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Digging through the console to get certain pieces of data such as the private IP of the container instance a task may be running on. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run several mission critical applications on ECS that are internal tools for our users in order to produce content for our business consumers. Initially, we used a homegrown solution for container orchestration as ECS matured, but now find it fully ready to handle our needs. ### 23. ecs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atuk G. | Atul gupta, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** good for microsevices approach - spinning of instances on fly **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** not a good candidate for monolithic n there shld be some provisioning **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** ecs managed services really help customer take off pain from managing infrastructure n good integration with other AWS services. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** moving workloads to containers n creation of hybrid model between on premise n aws ### 24. ECS is a top of the line reliable and easy to use container service for a project of any scale **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** This AWS service is very easy to get started and get it working. very robust and offers all the necessary insights expected from a service such as this **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The monitoring integration/capability of this service is very bad, unless I have custom cloudwatch monitoring in place, which is tedious at times. Need better inbuilt monitoring and logging features to make it the best in class **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Better monitoring features and more metrics for both ECS/EC2 and ECS/fargate needed **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Loadtesting backend and scaling web service loads ### 25. Efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul R. | Senior Technologist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like the fact that you only pay for what you use. Since I do not have users after 6pm I turn my instance off every night and save money. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I do not have anything that I dislike about the service. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost savings as well as insight into the health of my VM ### 26. Fargate with ECS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ariane G. | Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloud Transformation Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Fargate Launch Type: Serverless, scalable, integration with ECR. Task Definition and execution roles giving permission to other services. Service discovery with R53. ALB integration. Environment variables **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** AWS CLI - cannot update individual properties in a task definition in one command. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployed microservices for a large UK bank to AWS ECS Fargate launch type. ### 27. Reliability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan E. | Director of IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** We use the AWS ECS because there is so much community support behind it. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** No immediate concerns with the product. I mainly administer it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Give it a try with a small trial. Get some engineers to test out the service. They will love it. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having consistency between development, staging, and production environments. ### 28. Poor user experience, limited functionality **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The force new deployment checkbox was a game changer!!! **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** - the UI is really unintuative and slow - "active" and "primary" are really confusing names - it's frustrating that we can't use an old task def once there is a new primay (active?). sometimes in urgent situations when we've rolled out a bug or bad deploy, what we've ended up doing as a workaround is copying and editing the raw JSON and manually creating a new task def - 3000 container limit per service is frustrating **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** -container management ### 29. Loving containers as a service! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Going serverless has really helped us deploy changes faster. It's helped us build a product faster. And we're able to break an old monolith down into small components. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** It's a little confusing trying to run a task without a service - especially when this is a one off task that you don't want to schedule with ECS' cron like scheduler. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Keep improving the ease of use! **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using it to run jobs to process files in our ETL pipeline, for nightly reports, and one off tasks. ### 30. ECS should stand for Easy Containers Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Everything but mostly the EC2 Linux + Networking pre-configured cluster, this identifies by far the most common necessities when running this environment. Also the integration with ECR. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Is hard to say, but in the generality this should be the short documentation about it. There should be more examples or diversified environments. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintain our cluster servers on the same page without down-timing for updates or changes. ### 31. ECS is awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like that you can choose to manage it with EC2 servers or serverless Fargate. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The awsvpc Networking Mode is supposed to make the networking easier but in my experience it was way more difficult **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Consider whether you need to deploy your image in a server managed or serverless environment before starting to configure. Also make sure you understand how the networking works. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use docker heavily so using ECS to manage and deploy images is great ### 32. ECS is the future **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerry C. | Principal Database Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Love the robust and rapid features of using containers **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Have not found anything that I do not like now. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Much faster to build and deploy. We are in the beginning stages, but can see how this is the future of application management and deploy management ### 33. Love to use EC2 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Winfield G. | Principal System Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** It is easy to stoop up and convient to do POC for architect. It is cost effective and faster. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** It does not contained the ec2 instance for some of the technology, like all oracle data integrator. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it to solve problem for travel industry. ### 34. great integration with AWS Services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** darren w. | solutions architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** if you aren't using kubernetes, or have workloads that are AWS native, ECS is a fantastic option for seamless integration **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** can't think of anything at this time. Really great solution for aws native **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** standard applications that can scale with an RDS backend..lots of them. ### 35. Great way to get started with hosting containers. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Ease of gettting started with either a simple single container deployment or multple containers and still being able to control secrets and configuration so you dont feel like you have your IP hanging out. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I think this service is great for a starting step, once you get to a certain point its better to step into something like EKS. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Give it a test drive. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of getting developers started and self sufficient with setting up services they are creating. ### 36. fast and reliable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben S. | Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I love how fast this deployments go. I love the healthchecks and autoredployment. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** steep learning curve in the beginning, I wish the actual ecs logs were a little easier to find and more clear. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I moved off of servers to serverless infrastructure. ### 37. really elastic **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kapil s. | solutions architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** there are multiple options to choose and integrsate with S3 using intance profile. no keys required by the program **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** nreed more info on differences between fargate eks ecs bean stalk and other services **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** grear product and environment creation is faster ### 38. Container Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Relations | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Deployability and easy usage. also allow our applications to be bundled into container which can be scaled as needed based on useage. Once our software engineers figured out how to use this product it has been beneficial. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** some of the documentation was lacking when we first started using it. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** since this product is part of the AWS cloud offering, it works in the cloud. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** deployment to the cloud and to have a container for our apps ### 39. Excellent product to offload on-prem servers too **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pete M. | senior systems admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I really the speed I can bring a instance up and with the flexibility of computer/ram resources depending on requirements **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Nothing really, it us working great for us. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not have to worry about on-prem hardware issues ### 40. ECS is great for running containers in production **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** ECS enables my organization to scale our product while not worrying about the underlying infrastructure. ECS has definitely saved myself and team tons of time worrying about infrastructure and managing servers. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** ECS monitoring can definitely be improved, especially with respect to the Fargate launch type. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** ECS is great, would recommend. Especially take a look at Fargate. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** ECS helps scale our workload dynamically while not having to worry about setting up docker runtimes and clustering. ### 41. raising cattle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frank O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Easy and quick to spin up containers. Speeds up deployments. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** metrics and ASGs for the hosts. When new containers are needed, there is no ASG for the hosts. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** better metrics with asg instances (hosts) **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost and downtime ### 42. Productivity **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish G. | SPM, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Convenience of not having to handle the EC2 instances is promoting my team's productivity **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Need higher access to control the EC2 instances under the ECS cluster **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the productivity problems by alleviating dependence on the infrastructure team. ### 43. Love the in native clustering option **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mandeep P. | Sr. Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Create a task definition, create a service, define the amount of task and forget the rest. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Not being able to reactivate the deactivated task definitions **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** Use it if you haven't already. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost Optimization and reduced infrastructure ### 44. ECS Helped speed up our development and testing infrastructure stand up **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Container management is easy. Setting up the container definitions and deploying them, then updating them is fairly straight forward and simple. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Console integration is still a bit clunky. It would be nice to see a more holistic view of active clusters. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've moved most of our non-production workloads to Amazon ECS. This has allowed for quicker environment stand up and management. We've been able to speed up our development and testing overall. ### 45. container supportAwesome **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan M. | Principal Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The ease of submitting is great. Getting up and running could not be easier **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Nothing -- It is very easy to use and works well **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Esst of deployment is our biggest win from this produvt. ### 46. It's getting there, but still needs work. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spencer S. | Sr. DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** It's a managed container service that ties in with AWS. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Instances still sometimes randomly die, especially when upgrading the agent. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Long running services that don't need full servers, but wouldn't work with lambda. ### 47. ECS is a quick and easy way to get your services going from bare metal to containers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I love that task definitions and servies are easy to set up and scale, especially through CI and Infrastructure as Code solutions. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** Currently, to use load baslancing, you have to set a target group at only the creation of the service. I'd love to be able to change it as I go forward to new load balancing solutions. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick autoscaling through CPU and memory utilizations. Allows for greater elasticity and rightsizing. ### 48. ECS is pretty Decent **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like that I can see my containers on it and that it's linked to my aws. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** The task definitions between ecs and fargate aren't always similar. This causes alot of pain when I use ecs instead of fargate or vice verso **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS):** I would standard and write better tech syntax for ecs and provide more examples. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The speed and easy linking with ecr make it great to use. So very awesome! ### 49. Amazon EC2s for data processing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I like being able to rapidly spin up additional machines depending on our workload and needs. **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** I wish that the EC2s were able to sync better with OpsWorks, as I've noticed that you can do things like assign an EBS block to an instance under the EC2 page, it doesn't reflect on OpsWorks. **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use EC2s as hosts for web service endpoints, data processing machines, and analysis for running experimental code. ### 50. out the door **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** marc p. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** this allowed us to get out the door quickly **What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)?** little complex for the team it took awhile to get to a strong place to deploy **What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you?** this was in out path to prod deployment ## Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Discussions - [Simpler](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12184-simpler) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+04%3A05%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1a633787-9ccd-428c-bd39-b4ef636cfa41&secure%5Btoken%5D=531f4ec8e7e217331178436a9c3dffa0855a284b764a2f7fc46687fca4c119ad&format=llm_user) ## Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Integrations - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - [Amazon EventBridge](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-eventbridge/reviews) - [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) - [AWS Application Discovery Service](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-application-discovery-service/reviews) - [AWS Auto Scaling](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-auto-scaling/reviews) - [AWS Fargate](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/reviews) - [AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam/reviews) ## Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Features **Management** - Access Control - Network Isolation **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **Development** - Architecture - Datacenter - Virtualization ## Top Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Alternatives - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (290 reviews) - [Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)](https://www.g2.com/products/mirantis-kubernetes-engine-formerly-docker-enterprise/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (277 reviews) - [Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (216 reviews)