Amazon Elastic Container Service
Run highly secure, reliable, and scalable containers
Launch containers on AWS at scale without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Reduce costs with automatic scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing across multiple AWS compute options.
Deploy faster and focus on your applications by using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate serverless compute for containers.
Build on Amazon ECS with confidence, knowing that the security, compliance, and architecture meet regulatory standards.
How it works
The diagram shows how Amazon ECS launches, monitors, and scales applications across flexible compute options with automatic integrations to other AWS services. Developers describe their applications and the resources it needs, and let Amazon ECS do the rest. Operators perform system operations such as creating custom scaling and capacity rules, and observe and query data from application logs and telemetry. Three sections display from left to right.
The first section has an illustration of two different personas, placed vertically, one below the other. The illustration on top of the section is titled “Developers”. The description says “Describe your application and the resources it needs, then let Amazon ECS do the rest. The illustration below is titled “Operators” and the description says “Create custom scaling and capacity rules. Observe and query data from application logs and telemetry.” Both illustrations have arrows that point towards the second section.
The second section has an illustration of an icon that represents Amazon ECS. The section is titled “Amazon Elastic Container Service”. There are two arrow pointing to different parts of the third section. The first arrow on top is titled “Configuration” and the second arrow below is titled “Deployments and scaling”.
The third section has two parts within in. The first part on top is placed in front on the arrow coming from the second section titled “Configuration”. This part is titled “Automated integrations with other AWS services”. Nearby icons show different AWS services: “Elastic Load Balancing”, “AWS Secrets Manager”, and “Amazon Elastic File System”.
The second part within the third section is placed in front of the arrow coming from the second section titled “Deployment and scaling”. The part is titled “Flexible compute options”. Nearby icons show different AWS compute options: “AWS Fargate”, “Amazon EC2 Graviton; Intel”, “Amazon ECS Anywhere”, “AWS Outposts, “AWS Local Zones”, and. “AWS Wavelength”. There is an arrow pointing towards this list from a nearby illustration on the right. This illustration is titled “Amazon Elastic Container Registry” and says “Build and store container images using Amazon ECR or other container images."
Use cases
Modernize applications
Empower developers to build and deploy applications with enhanced security features in a fast, standardized, compliant, and cost-efficient manner with Amazon ECS.
Automatically scale web applications
Automatically scale and run web applications in multiple Availability Zones with the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS.
Support batch processing
Plan, schedule, and run batch computing workloads across AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Fargate, and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.
Train NLP and AI/ML models
Train natural language processing (NLP) and other artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) models without managing the infrastructure by using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate.
Customers
How to get started
Discover how Amazon ECS works
Learn more about hybrid deployment, batch processing, and building web applications with Amazon ECS.
Explore hands-on training
Learn how to deploy Docker containers, use containerized microservices, and more with Amazon ECS.
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