Containers

ECS (EC2 Container Service)

Let's you run, stop and manage docker containers on a managed cluster of EC2 instances

• ECR (EC2 Container Registry manages custom docker images
  • provides IAM resource-level control
• still responsible for the availability, capacity and maintenance of the underlying infrastructure
  • spin up EC2 instances and run tasks on top
• ECS task definition includes the image, cpu and memory requirements, launch type (infrastructure)
• ECS service

AWS Fargate

Analogous to EC2, but they give you a container instead of a VM

• per-second billing, useful for tasks
• this is the AWS managed solution

EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service?)

Is managed kubernetes, with built-in AWS integrations

• multi-AZ control plane
• looks really easy to provision a cluster and start running pods
• similar to ECS in that you still ultimately own the infrastructure, in this case the kubernetes cluster
  • AWS manages and deploys the Kubernetes masters and management infrastructure
  • you just add worker nodes and connect them