Amazon Elastic
Maximise the benefits of deploying serverless applications in a container environment with Amazon ECS.
What is Amazon ECS?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy for you to deploy, manage and scale containerised applications.
As an Amazon ECS Service Delivery Partner, fourTheorem has proven experience designing, deploying and optimising container environments using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.
We work with you to streamline containerised workload implementations - accelerating your modernisation journey while reducing operational complexity.
Benefits
Simplicity
ECS runs your containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2, making it easier to build applications with containers by eliminating the need for you to install, operate, and scale your own cluster management infrastructure.
Scalability
Increase or decrease the capacity of ECS container tasks with Amazon ECS service auto-scaling. Automatic scaling is the ability to increase or decrease the desired count of tasks in your Amazon ECS service automatically.
Cost Efficiency
A free-to-use service, with Amazon ECS you only pay for the underlying resources your containers use. Save up to 50% on compute costs with autonomous provisioning, auto-scaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Integration
Not only is Amazon ECS deeply integrated with other AWS services and features, but it can also be integrated with your schedulers with simple APIs or connected with your existing software delivery process.
How Amazon ECS Supports Modernisation
Batch Processing
Plan, schedule, and execute batch computing workloads using a full range of AWS services – including Amazon EC2, Fargate, and EC2 Spot Instances. This allows you to efficiently process large volumes of data and automate routine tasks.
Hybrid Deployment
Modernisation doesn’t mean you must abandon your on-premises infrastructure. With Amazon ECS Anywhere, you can build and manage containerised applications that run seamlessly across both cloud and on-prem environments.
Long-Running Workloads
Manage long-running applications and services using the Amazon ECS service scheduler. This ensures that tasks follow the desired scheduling strategy and automatically reschedules any that fail.
End Firefighting
By handling the complexity of infrastructure management and compatibility issues, ECS allows your developers to focus on building features, enhancing security, and improving the application.
Concurrency & Scaling
ECS is built to support bursts of high throughput. ECS on Fargate can handle multiple concurrent requests per container, with no built-in limits – scaling more efficiently than other serverless offerings like AWS Lambda or AWS App Runner
Web Applications
Automatically scale and run web applications in multiple Availability Zones with the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS.
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How do you save cost with ECS?
Discover how to maximise cost savings using Arm (Graviton) instances, Spot instances, Compute Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and EC2 Savings Plans. Plus, explore our recommended tools to identify additional opportunities for container cost optimisation.
