Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. Linux Containers LXD
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 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 |
 LXD | Score9.9 out of 10 | N/A | LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It supports various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. LXD is written in Go. It is free software… | N/A |
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| Additional Details | 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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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 | 6.4 |
| Usability | 8.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 8.4 | - |