Amazon Elastic Container Service is praised for its auto-scaling groups, cost-effectiveness, security standards, and high availability. Key features include per-second billing, serverless operations with Fargate, Docker image compatibility, and seamless integration with AWS services like CloudWatch and Elastic Load Balancer. Users value its simplicity, scalability, and reliability, mentioning 99% uptime and easy deployment processes. Its service discovery supports effective backend-front end connections, and it offers built-in hosting and backup features.
- "A really good feature of ECS is the integration with AWS services, especially the networking services like Elastic Load Balancer, Service Mesh, and Service Map, which simplifies the service discovery process."
- "I use the tool to manage containerized applications. What I like about Amazon ECS is the interface it provides. Although the configurations can be extensive, such as setting up auto-scaling groups and configuring separate tasks and services for each application, the interface makes it manageable."
- "It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
Users of Amazon Elastic Container Service highlight a need for improvement in instance management, including the process of identifying failed instances. Pricing complexity and expense are significant concerns. Interface and usability improvements are suggested, with users finding console navigation disorganized. There are calls for better support, enhanced security measures, and more efficient integration with external tools. Simplifying setup, offering more automation and container orchestration features, and providing clearer documentation would benefit users.
- "The user interface of ECS could be improved for better navigation and to assist in quickly setting up a deployment."
- "The tool initially required a significant amount of development time on the backend, but in terms of efficiency, it's a one-time effort."
- "After the load balancer gets attached to Amazon Elastic Container Service clusters, I can't modify, remove, or replace it later."