AWS Containers
AWS offers two types of container services, AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service offered by AWS. It simplifies the process of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications, allowing developers to focus on building and running their applications rather than managing the underlying infrastructure. While EKS offers a similar functionality, it leverages an open source container platform orchestration system called Kubernetes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization that package an application or code and its dependencies together. Unlike traditional VMs, containers share the host operating system kernel and only contain the application and its dependencies, making them more efficient and portable.
An analogy for a container on AWS is akin to a shipping container in the logistics industry. Just as a shipping container is a standardized, portable...
