Amazon Elastic Container Service

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—Public API

NoOpen source

YesFree tier

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Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for building, managing, and running containerized workloads.

Pricing

Amazon ECS orchestrationNo additional charge for orchestration; pay for underlying compute and resources used. · Underlying compute and resource charges applyFree
ECS Anywhere$0.01025 per registered on-premises instance/hour; billed hourly with a one-hour minimum. · Per registered on-premises instance · Underlying resource charges may apply$0.01/mo

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Facts

Website: aws.amazon.com
Price: Free tier · from $0.01/mo
Free trial: Not stated
Application security: AWS describes ECS security features including application isolation, granular container permissions, IAM roles, automated patching, and encryption in transit and at rest.
Compliance: AWS says it supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171.
Container image repositories: ECS can retrieve images from third-party hosted Docker repositories or accessible private registries, including Docker Hub and Amazon ECR.
Fargate storage: Each Fargate task receives 20 GB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge; additional configured storage is billed, up to 200 GB.
Hybrid deployments: ECS Anywhere lets customers manage on-premises container workloads using the ECS console and operator tools.
Intended users: AWS says ECS serves teams running containerized workloads and describes customers ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments.
Pricing limits: Fargate usage is billed by requested vCPU, memory, and storage, rounded up to the nearest second, with a one-minute minimum charge.
Scaling: ECS helps teams deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without managing the orchestration control plane, nodes, or add-ons.
Serverless compute: AWS Fargate is built into ECS and handles scaling and infrastructure management for containers launched with Fargate.
Support: AWS lists support as a way to access proactive guidance, issue resolution, and support tools.
Supported containers: ECS supports management of Windows containers and provides an ECS-optimized Windows Amazon Machine Image.
Threat detection: ECS integrates with Amazon GuardDuty to help detect external threats to workloads.

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