Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) . It helps users to easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications across AWS Regions in the cloud and on-premises. Some key features of Amazon ECS include:
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Fully Managed: Amazon ECS is a fully managed service that comes with AWS configuration and operational best practices built-in.
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Scalability: Amazon ECS allows users to automatically scale and run web applications in multiple Availability Zones with the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS.
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Integration: Amazon ECS is integrated with both AWS and third-party tools, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Docker, making it easier for teams to focus on building applications, not the environment.
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Ease of Use: Amazon ECS provides multiple options for provisioning, including the AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) .
Amazon ECS is a cloud computing service that manages containers and lets developers run them on a cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. It supports Docker, an open-source Linux container service. Amazon developed ECS in response to the rise in popularity of containerization.
