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It’s Sarvar Nadaf again, a senior developer at Luxoft. I worked on several technologies like cloud operations (Azure and AWS), DataOps, Serverless Analytics, and DevOps for various clients across the globe.
Today, we’re going to talk about one of the most well known container services offered by Amazon Web Services, known as Amazon Elastic Container Service, or AWS ECS. We will see the AWS ECS service in-depth in this article. We’ll begin by discussing the advantages of the What is Container? Then we switch to AWS ESC, where we’ll talk about the Serverless method for managing containers that is accessible in AWS ECS as well as the many options offered by AWS for managing our containerized workloads. Finally, we’ll talk over some of AWS ECS’s features. Let’s see, then.
What is Container ?
A container is a standardized software component that wraps up code and all of its dependencies to ensure that an application will run swiftly and consistently in different computing environments. All required executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files are contained inside a container. However, operating system images are not present in containers, unlike server or machine virtualization methods.
What is Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS)?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) is the service provided by AWS to manage containerized applications on the AWS cloud. Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, highly secure, and high-performance container management service that makes it simple to run applications on a cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances under control. AWS ECS is used by businesses and organizations around the world to increase efficiency and performance of the application. Let’s talk about it in more depth now.
Over the traditional container service docker, Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) is more flexible and reliable. AWS ESC will offer additional benefits if you currently utilize AWS as a cloud to execute your production workloads. Here is how AWS Identity and Access Management integration works Each of your containers can have rights that are quite specific. When creating your apps, this enables a high level of isolation and in other hand we will work quickly perform the Continuous deployment and integration with AWS ECS. We can AWS Cloud watch with AWS ECS can be combined to monitor your containers. You may view the logs from your container instances in one simple location after sending this information to AWS Cloud watch. AWS in house service we will easily integrate with AWS ESC services.
AWS ESC is used to manage, run, and stop containers in a cluster. Here, we’ll use AWS ESC to host our contained application. In order to host your static application or your multi-tier application, we are using containerized apps that use the AWS ESC. As an alternative, you can execute your processes and services on a cluster of managed Amazon EC2 instances for more control over your infrastructure. We will now see specifics about the serverless and non-serverless approaches for AWS ECS.
AWS ESC vs AWS Fargate:
We can install our container apps in AWS in two different ways, depending on the use case. To make it simpler for you to comprehend the differences between AWS ECS and AWS Fargate, we’ll start by comparing AWS ECS and AWS Fargate. When you look at AWS, you’ll see that ESC is more focused on controlling and hosting your containers the old method. In AWS ESC, we have more control over the AWS infrastructure, however in AWS Fargate, AWS manages the infrastructure, which is why AWS Fargate is known as Serveless. In this case, AWS Fargate offers a pay-as-you-go model, which means you only need to pay for the resources you have really utilized. In AWS ECS charges you for provisioned EC2 instances on an hourly basis.
When using Serverless, we don’t have to worry about the infrastructure because AWS manages everything. We need to just take care of configuration, resources and application need to be taken care of. However, if you look at AWS ECS, the infrastructure we need to manage, you’ll see that you need to provision an AWS EC2 server before configuring your containers. We do not have access to the back end of Fargate is highly accessible, secure, and always available infrastructure.
When to Use:
We’ve seen the distinction between AWS ECS and AWS Fargate. Now, we’ll explore which workloads function best with AWS ESC and Fargate.
AWS ECS:
- Large Workload with optimum performance.
- Stateless Applications.
- Workload which required Customize underlying infrastructure. (Provide more flexibility)
AWS Fargate
- High CPU core & High Memory usage Workload Workload. (Data Analytics Workload)
- Stateful Applications.
- Fix resources usage workloads.
- Large workload with high throughput.
AWS ECS Features:
You’ve seen a lot about the AWS ECS so far, and now we’re going to learn more about it by looking at its feature. Let’s examine what the future of the containerized application offers with AWS ECS. Among the essential characteristics are:
- Serverless: One of the finest futures for AWS ECS is the serveless option known as AWS Fargate. The pay-as-you-go model offered by AWS eliminates the need for backend infrastructure management.
- Auto Scaling: When workload increases, AWS ECS may automatically scale your cluster up or down based on that.
- Security: Because Amazon ECS natively integrates with the Security, Identity, Management, and Governance systems that support AWS ECS in all ways, AWS ECS is secure.
- Monitoring: AWS offers native monitoring tools for your ECS clusters and containers, allowing you to keep an eye on the average and total CPU and memory usage of active processes. Additionally, you may configure Cloud Watch alarms to notify you when your clusters or containers require scaling up or down.
- Flexibility: All of your locally packed containerized applications will be deployed and operated on the ECS service without the need for any configuration because a Docker daemon manages each instance in a cluster.
Congratulation! You have read this article entirely. We have seen and learned about the AWS ECS overview. We now know what AWS ECS is, can distinguish it from Fargate, and have seen some of the system’s most intriguing features. and I hope you enjoyed and learned something from it. Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions about it; I’ll do my best to answer them.
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I hope you like my article. I’m going to share my knowledge with you in order to make it easier for you to grasp AWS DevOps. I’ll be publishing more articles like this soon.
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