AWS ECS — out of the Box features … simple to use and manage !!

Docker Turtle
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Elastic Container Service — features out of the Box:

  1. ECS eliminates the need for you to install, operate, and scale your own cluster management infrastructure
  2. Infra management (Master server, Cluster DB) with NFR and HA
  3. ECS service: For HA — minimum 3 Master servers (EC2) is Free of cost
  4. Managed service — No DevOps effort to support Control plane
  5. Parameter store (Secrets mgmt)
  6. IAM role at Task level
  7. X Ray for Distributed tracing
  8. Auto Scaling of ECS Worker Nodes (EC2 instances)
  9. Auto scaling of ECS Tasks based on AWS Elastic Load Balancing metrics like SurgeQueueLength and Amazon SQS metrics like ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible
  10. ECS supports the Application Load Balancer(ALB) for Load Balancing — path based routing
  11. Automated cleanup of stopped tasks and Docker images that are not being used by any tasks on your Container instances (Worker nodes)
  12. Auto upgrade of ECS API version with new Features
  13. Easy upgrade of Docker version on ECS Worker Nodes
  14. Auto log forwarder from Containers to Cloudwatch Logs
  15. Placement constraints for Containers
  16. Time and Event Based Task scheduling
  17. Container level Metrics is provided with Alarms & Actions
  18. Provides support for Windows Server Containers. We can run Linux and Windows containers on the Same ECS cluster
  19. Drain a ECS Container instance in preparation for maintenance or cluster scale down. The draining state prevents new tasks from being started on the container instance

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