About Amazon ECS

Amazon Elastic Container Service is a highly scalable container orchestration platform that has been serving production workloads since 2014. It powers some of the largest containerized applications in the world, including services within Amazon itself.

Key Features

• Launch Types • Choose between AWS Fargate serverless compute or EC2 instances for infrastructure control
• Task Definitions • Define containerized applications with CPU, memory, networking, and IAM requirements
• Service Scheduling • Automatic placement and scaling of containers across availability zones for high availability
• AWS Integration • Native support for Application Load Balancers, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and IAM roles
• Cluster Management • Organize containers into logical groups with shared capacity and networking

Use Cases

ECS excels at microservices architectures, batch processing, machine learning inference, CI/CD pipelines, and migrating legacy applications to containers. Organizations appreciate its operational simplicity and pay as you go pricing model.

QR Code Applications

Embed QR codes in infrastructure diagrams to link directly to running services, include them in deployment runbooks for quick console access, or place codes on team dashboards to provide instant mobile visibility into container health and performance.