Running Docker in production has quickly become the norm. Cloud hosting providers like AWS, GCE and Azure realized that this is what organizations need. Services like EKS and ECS from Amazon offer a completely managed environment for your Docker containers to run on. Through this article, we’ll take a closer look to one of them, Amazon ECS, which is Amazon Elastic Container Service. We are going to describe what AWS ECS is, its functions, and its importance in the current market.
“AWS ECS is a fully-managed, scalable and production-ready platform for running containers.”
If you don’t know what any of this means, then the rest of the article is going to help you with that. Suffice it to, say, "fully-managed" implies you don’t have to pay any third-party software vendor to run your containerized application. "Scalable" means you don’t have to worry, ahead of time, about resource utilization. AWS Cloud will make resources, like CPU, memory and storage, available to you, on demand.