Step-by-Step Hands-On Guide of AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a highly scalable & fully managed container orchestration service that allows us to easily run, manage and scale containerized applications on AWS.

With ECS, it’s not required to manually install or operate any container orchestration software, or even to schedule containers on a set of computing machines.

Also, there’s a concept of ECS Capacity Providers which is configured to provide the resources/infrastructure that will be used by the workloads run within the cluster. In a cluster, it’s possible to have multiple capacity providers and an optional default capacity provider strategy.

The capacity provider strategy determines how the workloads are spread across the cluster’s capacity providers. We can opt for the strategy depending on our requirements when we run any task. There are some different types of capacity providers as well, depending on whether we’ve our workloads hosted on EC2 or Fargate.