Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, fast container management service that supports Docker containers and allows deploying containerized applications quickly. It provides container orchestration, scheduling, cluster management, load balancing, auto-scaling, and monitoring. ECS integrates with other AWS services like EC2 for compute, ECR for private Docker registry, EFS for shared file storage, and CloudWatch for monitoring. Customers can use ECS for various use cases like microservices, batch jobs, continuous integration/deployment by writing task definitions and deploying them on ECS clusters.

1. Amazon EC2
Container Service
Highly scalable, fast, container management service
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3. Container Use Cases
Distributed Applications and Microservices
Batch/Extract-Transform-Load Jobs
Continuous Integration and Continuous
Deployment

4. Features
Docker Compatibility
Managed Clusters
Task Definitions
Scheduling
Load Balancing
Monitoring and logging
Repository Support
Amazon EFS File System
Security

5. Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR)
Private Docker Repository
● V2 Docker Registry
● Highly Available
● IAM and AWS Auth integration
● Low latency push, pulls and inspection
● Simplified Workflow
Alternatives
● Dockerhub
● Docker Trusted Registry

6. ● ECS Clusters
● Container Instances
● ECS Container Agent
● Task Definitions
● Services
● ECR Repositories
● AWS CloudTrail
● ECS CloudWatch
ECS Architecture

7. Amazon ECS Cluster Workflow

8. Amazon ECS Cluster

9. Task definitions
Task definitions are split into four basic
parts:
the task family
the IAM task role
container definitions
volumes.
The family is the name of the task, and
each family can have multiple revisions.

10. Task definitions limits
Changes to one component can impact all three components,
which may be a larger scope for the change than you want
Each component is more difficult to scale because you have to
scale every container proportionally
Task definitions can only have 10 container definitions and your
application stack might require more, either now or in the
future
Every container in a task definition must land on the same
container instance, which may limit your instance choices
to the largest sizes

11. Scheduling Containers
Batch Jobs
ECS task scheduler
Run task once
Batch jobs (fixed interval/cron)
RunTask (random)
StartTask (placed)
Long-Running Apps
ECS service scheduler
Health management
Scale-up and scale-down
AZ aware

12. Amazon ECS Batch jobs

13. Amazon ECS Service

14. Amazon ECS Service

15. Amazon ECS Service Update

16. Automatic Scaling

17. Amazon ECS Service Monitoring
ClusterName, ServiceName
CPUReservation
CPUUtilization
MemoryReservation
MemoryUtilization
● Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
● Amazon CloudWatch Logs
● Amazon CloudWatch Events
● AWS CloudTrail log monitoring

18. Application Load Balancers

19. Application Load Balancers

20. Amazon ECS CI and CD

21. ECS Command line interface
High-level commands to creating, updating, and monitoring clusters and tasks from a local development environment.
Supports Docker Compose, a popular open-source tool for defining and running multi-container applications.
Open source, binaries available for MacOs and Linux

22. Amazon ECS Service Limits and price
Price
There is no additional charge for Amazon EC2
Container Service.
You pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2
instances or EBS volumes) you create to store
and run your application.
You only pay for what you use, as you use it;
there are no minimum fees and no upfront
commitments.

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your attention
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