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Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) Overview:
Amazon ECS enables the execution of Docker-enabled applications as containers across an EC2 instance cluster.
Amazon ECS simplifies cluster management by utilizing AWS Fargate.
AWS Fargate is an engine that allows ECS to run containers without the need to manage instances and clusters.
Docker is a software that automates the installation and distribution of applications within Linux Containers.
Containers are isolated packages that contain everything an application needs to run, except for the operating system.
Advantages of Containers:
Containers are portable, lightweight, flexible, and scalable across cloud environments.
Containers decouple applications from the underlying operating system.
Container applications run consistently across different deployment locations.
Amazon ECS Features:
Amazon ECS eliminates the need to manage cluster management systems.
It supports both Fargate and EC2 launch types for deploying containers.
Fargate launch type requires less configuration, while EC2 launch type offers greater customization.
AWS CloudWatch monitors metrics against containers and clusters.
CloudWatch enables creating alarms for specific events like cluster scaling.
ECS Clusters and Instances:
An ECS cluster consists of a collection of EC2 instances.
Security Groups, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling can be used with ECS instances.
Instances within a cluster operate similarly to individual EC2 instances.
Clusters aggregate resources like CPU and memory, dynamically scaling from small to large instances.
Scalability and Region-Specificity:
Clusters can scale dynamically from single small instances to thousands of larger instances.
Clusters can span multiple availability zones but cannot span multiple regions.
Amazon ECS is region-specific and operates within a single region.
Container Scheduling and Agents:
Amazon ECS schedules containers based on resource and availability requirements.
Instances in ECS clusters have Docker daemons and ECS agents installed.
ECS agents translate ECS commands into Docker commands for execution.