AWS ECS: A Beginner’s Guide
Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a highly scalable and fast container management service that allows you to manage containers on a cluster. It’s a powerful tool for deploying and running containerized applications. Here are the essential aspects of Amazon ECS: Key Components: Clusters: Clusters are logical groupings of container instances. These instances can be either EC2 instances or Fargate tasks. A cluster acts as the compute layer for ECS, providing the resources needed to run your containers. Container Instances: Container instances are either EC2 instances or Fargate serverless compute units. They run your containerized applications. EC2 instances are part of an ECS cluster and can host multiple containers. Fargate tasks are serverless and abstract away the underlying infrastructure. Tasks: Tasks represent units of work defined by a container image, memory/CPU requirements, and other configurations. Each task runs one or more containers. You define tasks using task def