Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers.	$0 per hour per GB

Pricing

AWS Fargate Launch Type Model: Spot price: $0.0013335. Ephemeral Storage Pricing: $0.000111
per hour per storage
Amazon EC2 Launch Type Model: Free
Amazon ECS on AWS Outposts: Free

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

There is no additional charge for Amazon ECS. You pay for AWS resources (e.g., Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EBS volumes) you create to store and run your application. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments.

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	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Some of the other services that are similar to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have an easier setup, but the longer term deployment is good with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and the total cost of ownership can be reduced if you are integrating … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is good abstraction/runtime for the container orchestration. No need to maintain and host own solution. Good integrated in AWS Incentivized Helpful? Animesh Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff in Engineering at athenahealth (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a good beginner level orchestration service but lacks container management and scaling capabilities. EC2 is again not a Managed cloud service. It is like just renting a computer on cloud and then managing it on our own. Compared to these ECS is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) EKS is like a full-featured Kubernetes on AWS. ECS is a proprietary container orchestration service by AWS. ECS is much simpler to learn & use. It has built-in tight integration with other AWS services as well. Some key considerations: EKS is like Kubernetes; if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) EKS is a Kubernetes technology and you need to learn Kubernetes and build a cluster before using it. So there's a learning curve here. ECS was easier to implement and simpler to have in our use case. It takes less time to run a workload and make it available. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) The comparison between Amazon ECS versus Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for us came down to the other services already in motion. A lot of companies tend to go really deep with a particular vendor (Amazon, Google, Microsoft etc) and we were already using a bunch of Amazon … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) I chose Amazon ECS over Amazon EKS and other products because the whole infrastructure was decided to be designed on AWS cloud and Amazon ECS made it easier to make the clusters live in just a few minutes. Amazon ECS has better integration with other AWS services and we don't … Incentivized Helpful? Francisco Javier Castaneda Marroquin CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Research & Development at Global Bestlogistics Systems S.A. de C.V. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) We like Elastic Containers better because of the simplicity to create an application without losing control over it. It is simple, yet powerful, exposing only the parts that are needed without complicating the access to the nuts and bolts when more complicated adjustments are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) If you are using AWS, you will be using Amazon ECS. I have also used Azure Container Instances and it works just as well in Azure as ECS does in AWS. It's really all a matter of what cloud provider you are utilizing. Because of the "Cloud Wars," it's difficult to measure … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Feature	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) 8.1 6 Ratings
Security and Isolation	9.06 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.45 Ratings
Cluster Management	7.86 Ratings
Storage Management	8.03 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.35 Ratings
Discovery Tools	7.34 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	8.56 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	8.46 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.26 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (12 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (4 ratings)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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