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Compare solutions: Kubernetes and AWS ECS

Maciej
6 min readApr 27, 2021

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Introduction

Using containers offers great benefits, increasing the environment also means making difficult choices. We need to think what orchestration tools are the best for our situation and how to monitor the our system. Docker is the standard for container runtimes, but you have multiple options to choose from from container orchestration tools. For now Leaders in this case there are CNCF’s Kubernetes and AWS ECS. According to a 2020 survey, 83% of companies use Kubernetes as their container orchestration solution.

More info we can find in this survey

In this article, I will focus to compare ECS and Kubernetes to help users decide which one to use.

Kubernetes — Benefits of using for container orchestration

Kubernetes is an active community with a wide range of modular open source extensions, backed by major companies and institutions like CNCF. Many developers and many large companies have contributed to Kubernetes, making it the perfect platform for modern software infrastructure. This also means that the community is not only actively working together, but is also building features to easily solve modern problems.

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Maciej
Maciej

Written by Maciej

DevOps Consultant. I’m strongly focused on automation, security, and reliability.

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