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I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations. When you configure your containers to be launched with special configurations, such as with CloudWatch events, sometimes they fail to launch and they enter into a locked state. Each time this happens, all the configuration behind the container creates itself again, making it such that the costs can quickly go up if you have any bugs in your configuration. Besides that issue, I would say it's not that expensive, but can still be costly in a way.
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2020-08-23T08:17:29Z
Aug 23, 2020
I don't exactly deal with the pricing. We have a separate Infra team that deals with the pricing. They are more into the scalability part. Based on our requirements, the pricing will increase. The automation teams will test some of the benefits to see how can we can optimize the cost. They'll have a security manager connection and some alerts based upon the usage to see how to reduce the building cost based upon the installations.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.
The product's pricing is good.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is an expensive solution.
Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive.
Amazon Elastic Container Service's price is good.
If you want to scale without the traditional methods, the solution is a bit cost-effective.
The platform is inexpensive.
The solution's cost could be reduced.
The tool's licensing is monthly.
The price of ECS is not bad. It is based on usage. It works on a per-hour pricing model.
I don't know the exact amount we were charged for our use of ECS, but I do know that it can be costly, especially when there is a bug or an error caused by default configurations. When you configure your containers to be launched with special configurations, such as with CloudWatch events, sometimes they fail to launch and they enter into a locked state. Each time this happens, all the configuration behind the container creates itself again, making it such that the costs can quickly go up if you have any bugs in your configuration. Besides that issue, I would say it's not that expensive, but can still be costly in a way.
All of our contractors are on a yearly license.
There's no license fee, it's pay as you go and the fee is reasonable.
Our client is paying between $400 and $500 USD per month for this service.
I don't exactly deal with the pricing. We have a separate Infra team that deals with the pricing. They are more into the scalability part. Based on our requirements, the pricing will increase. The automation teams will test some of the benefits to see how can we can optimize the cost. They'll have a security manager connection and some alerts based upon the usage to see how to reduce the building cost based upon the installations.