Amazon Web Services

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

Definition

AWS's container orchestration service. It manages the lifecycle of Docker containers on EC2 or Fargate clusters. An alternative to Kubernetes with lower operational complexity.

Exam context

This shows up as a container service on CLF-C02 and SAA-C03. Difference from EKS: ECS is AWS's own orchestrator; EKS is managed Kubernetes. With Fargate you don't have to manage the underlying nodes.

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