A AWS oferece várias formas de executar containers — ECS (Elastic Container Service, seu próprio orquestrador), EKS (Kubernetes gerenciado) e Fargate (containers serverless, sem servidores para gerenciar). Compreender as opções ajuda a escolher a plataforma de container certa.
ECS — orquestrador de containers da AWS
ECS runs and orchestrates Docker containers on AWS:
→ simpler than Kubernetes; deeply integrated with AWS (IAM, ALB, CloudWatch, VPC)
→ TASK (a running container set), TASK DEFINITION (the spec), SERVICE (keeps N tasks
running, integrates with load balancers, auto-scales)
→ good for teams wanting container orchestration without Kubernetes complexity
