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Amazon Elastic Container Service pros and cons

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PROS

Amazon Elastic Container Service offers an Auto Scaling group feature that provides flexibility and cost-saving benefits by automatically adjusting resource levels based on specified metrics.
High availability and scalability make Amazon Elastic Container Service a preferred choice for large enterprises requiring robust performance and uptime.
Integration with AWS services like Elastic Load Balancer and networking capabilities enhances service discovery and simplifies microservices management.
Per-second billing and serverless options like Fargate allow users to efficiently manage and deploy containers without the need for extensive infrastructure management.
Stability and good technical support from AWS contribute to establishing Amazon Elastic Container Service as a reliable platform for containerized applications.

CONS

Amazon Elastic Container Service sometimes fails to automatically recover instances, requiring manual intervention to find and restart affected instances, which affects durability and customer request handling.
The complexity of Amazon Elastic Container Service makes it difficult to use, especially for newcomers, calling for better documentation and simplification.
Pricing of Amazon Elastic Container Service is a concern, as costs can be high despite per-second billing and complex billing systems.
Amazon Elastic Container Service's customization options for high-computer workloads and reliability require improvement.
Backup capabilities and compatibility with different operating systems like Windows and Mac need enhancement in Amazon Elastic Container Service.
 

Amazon Elastic Container Service Pros review quotes

it_user965562 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2020
It has an Auto Scaling group feature. We can use this feature to have an Auto Scaling group to specify a minimum and maximum count for all types of configurations. Based on the specified values, Amazon Elastic Container Service scales the required CPU environmental metrics.
KA
DevOps Engineer at OnGraph Technologies Limited
Oct 13, 2020
The production environment is highly available, which nowadays is a requirement for all of the big companies.
VP
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 4, 2021
Good documentation and very straightforward to implement and use.
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reviewer1612005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jun 25, 2021
The containerization is a valuable feature for us.
JS
Practice Director, Global Infrastructure Services at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 22, 2021
What I really like about Amazon ECS is its simplicity and ease of use. Amazon also has really good security.
Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC
May 12, 2022
The solution is simple to access.
Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at Velocis Technologies LLC
Jul 19, 2022
I like the per-second billing.
MW
Cloud DevOps engineer at DeepMetis
Nov 2, 2022
For me, the best feature of ECS is Fargate because I don't have to manage anything. Instead, everything is managed by AWS and all I have to do, in essence, is configure my containers and deploy them.
Kyle Titus - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Revio
Feb 21, 2023
Once you get the procedure right, and set a pattern, it just works.
Neeraj Dev - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Director, India at INTELLIGAIA, INC
May 8, 2023
We use the product for website and email database hosting.
 

Amazon Elastic Container Service Cons review quotes

it_user965562 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2020
Sometimes, the instances fail under the ECS container cluster, and we have to manually go and find out the black sheep in the ECS container instance. We had an issue earlier where one of the instances under the ECS container cluster went down, and we were not able to identify that instance. The instance got terminated, but a new instance did not come up. Therefore, I had to manually get that instance up. It could be optimized better. In production, we normally cannot sustain such things. It can be optimized in terms of instances, durability, and serving the requests of customers.
KA
DevOps Engineer at OnGraph Technologies Limited
Oct 13, 2020
I think that it would help if the vendor provided more use cases and explanations as to how ECS can be utilized.
VP
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 4, 2021
Support could be better with response time and knowledge of staff.
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reviewer1612005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jun 25, 2021
It's a complex tool and should be simplified.
JS
Practice Director, Global Infrastructure Services at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 22, 2021
In the next release, they could add some customization options for high computer workloads.
Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC
May 12, 2022
The pricing could be a bit better.
Moses NYOTA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at Velocis Technologies LLC
Jul 19, 2022
The solution can still be expensive, even with per-second billing.
MW
Cloud DevOps engineer at DeepMetis
Nov 2, 2022
Visualization is an important factor for me, and I don't think that the visuals within ECS are good enough because it doesn't show you all the details you might need to see at a glance.
Kyle Titus - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Revio
Feb 21, 2023
Probably, they should include automated graphing, and monitoring solutions.
Neeraj Dev - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Director, India at INTELLIGAIA, INC
May 8, 2023
The solution is expensive compared to other alternatives like Azure.