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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

ECS

  • A highly scalable, fast, container management service.

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers.

  • Essential Amazon ECS features include the ability to:

    • Launch up to tens of thousands of Docker containers in seconds
    • Monitor container deployment
    • Manage the state of the cluster that runs the containers
    • Schedule containers by using a built-in scheduler or a third-party scheduler (for example, Apache Mesos or Blox)