Containers on AWS

Run your containers in the most secure, performant, and scalable environment

Overview

AWS Container Services offer fully managed container orchestration with AWS native solutions and open source technologies. With flexible compute options that reduce operational overhead, they enable teams to focus on innovation and drive business value faster. Customers such as Sony Interactive Entertainment, Autodesk, GoDaddy, and United Airlines choose to run their containers on AWS for security, reliability, and performance.

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Benefits

Offload application operations and infrastructure management to AWS so your teams can focus on innovation.

Reduce total cost of ownership through pay-per-use pricing, increased resource utilization, and reduced operational overhead.

Improve application security with automated system patches and updates, granular isolation, and native integrations with AWS security services.

Choose from a wide array of compute environments in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.

AWS Container Services

   
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Easily build, manage, and scale containerized applications at any scale on AWS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Start, run, and scale Kubernetes without thinking about cluster management 
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Easily store, share, and deploy your container software anywhere 
AWS Fargate Run containers without managing servers

Use cases

Decompose monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures that are fault-tolerant, extensible, and can scale effortlessly.

Package batch processing and extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs into containers to start jobs quickly and scale them dynamically in response to demand.

Quickly scale machine learning (ML) models for training and inference and run them close to your data sources in any environment.

Deploy applications in containers to ensure consistent, automated workflows across both on-premises and cloud environments.

Lift and shift applications to AWS to benefit from the cloud’s scale, agility, and performance.