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Containers on AWS
Section 16 of 30
ECS, EKS, Fargate, ECR, and container orchestration on AWS
55 minβ’intermediate
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Key Takeaways
- β’ECS (Elastic Container Service) is AWS's proprietary container orchestration service with EC2 or Fargate launch types
- β’Fargate is serverless compute for containers - no EC2 instances to manage, just define task definitions
- β’EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) provides managed Kubernetes for cloud-agnostic container orchestration
- β’ECR (Elastic Container Registry) is a fully managed Docker container registry integrated with IAM and ECS/EKS
- β’ECS with Fargate + EFS provides serverless, persistent, multi-AZ shared storage for containers
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