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Pablo Acuña, Deploying Rails with Docker, Kubernetes and ECS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2415-1_4

4. Amazon EC2 Container Service

Pablo Acuña

(1)Providencia, Chile

Concepts

Although every container orchestration framework uses its own specific language for its concepts, they all try to solve the same issues. That’s why you’ll find some similarities between Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) and Kubernetes but also a couple of differences in the way they solve the issues. One strong point in favor of ECS is that because it’s a native AWS (Amazon Web Services) technology, it is completely integrated with the other components, such as VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) , EC2, ELBs (Elastic Load Balancers) , and Route53. The main issue with ECS ...

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