We use Amazon EC2 Container Service for application and containerization.
Controler at Emirates
A stable solution that can be used for application and containerization, but it should include more enterprise project management features
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution."
- "Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution.
What needs improvement?
Amazon EC2 Container Service should be made easier to use.
Amazon EC2 Container Service should include more enterprise project management features, typically available in an OpenShift environment.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon EC2 Container Service for four years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a scalable solution. Around 2,000 users are using Amazon EC2 Container Service in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is moderately complex.
What about the implementation team?
It takes a month to set up Amazon EC2 Container Service. We implemented the solution through an in-house team.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is an expensive solution.
What other advice do I have?
Around 100 staff members are required for the solution's deployment and maintenance.
Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Chief Technology Officer at HOPI HOLDING a.s.
A highly scalable and flexible solution that can be used for running applications
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Container Service is its flexibility."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon EC2 Container Service for running applications and data.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 Container Service is its flexibility.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon EC2 Container Service for quite a long time.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution's stability is almost perfect, but some outages occasionally occur.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution's scalability is perfect.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with Amazon EC2 Container Service.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have to pay a monthly licensing fee for Amazon EC2 Container Service. The solution's pricing is acceptable.
What other advice do I have?
I am using the latest version of Amazon EC2 Container Service. Amazon EC2 Container Service is a cloud-based solution.
I would recommend Amazon EC2 Container Service to other users.
Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Cloud Architect at iwell iwell Co.Co.
Helps to maintain a global file system but improvement is needed in backup
Pros and Cons
- "Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address and resolve them. The product helps to have a global file system. Also, it helps in data replication from region to region."
- "The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac."
What is our primary use case?
I use the product for Azure folders, which act as a shared folder between the servers. I utilize it as a network file system for storing logs and managing software across all the servers in various availability zones. I have two instances: one for production and another for QA and testing purposes. I mount this file system across all virtual machines, creating a unified storage solution for logs, outputs, and other data generated by various jobs and tasks.
What is most valuable?
Implementing the product has helped me monitor the parameters. I utilize tools like CloudWatch and AWS systems to track these parameters. If any issues arise, I alert our developer team to address and resolve them. The product helps to have a global file system. Also, it helps in data replication from region to region.
What needs improvement?
The solution must improve backup and compatibility around OS like Windows and Mac.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the product since 2018.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Amazon ECS scalability an eight out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
While implementing the product may initially pose a learning curve, it's not overly difficult.The key is to track progress and adapt to the learning curve.
What was our ROI?
My boss told me we get good ROI with the tool's use.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product's pricing is good.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon ECS a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Creative Director at AdamSmiths.com
Comes with autoscaling feature but needs improvement in deployment and menu design
Pros and Cons
- "The tool helps us with maneuverability. Its most valuable feature is autoscaling."
- "Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation."
What is most valuable?
The tool helps us with maneuverability. Its most valuable feature is autoscaling.
What needs improvement?
Amazon EC2 Container Service needs to improve the menu design. It needs to improve deployment with better documentation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service's stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool's scalability a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
Amazon EC2 Container Service's deployment is complex.
What was our ROI?
Amazon EC2 Container Service has helped us save time.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The tool's cost is good.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service a nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Site Reliability Engineering at WiseTech Global
A scalable solution that can be used to run containers, but its user experience and management are really bad
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve."
- "The solution's user experience and management are really bad."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon Elastic Container Service to run containers.
What is most valuable?
Amazon Elastic Container Service serves the function it's supposed to serve.
What needs improvement?
The solution's user experience and management are really bad.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is not a user-friendly solution. The process of creating everything in Amazon Elastic Container Service is messy. Everything sits in very different locations, and it's not centralized. For example, their networking sits under EC2. You also need to manage the DNS records, which sit under Route 53.
The deployment configuration is located in one place, and the actual EC2 is located in a different place. You have a lot of components to manage, and every one of them is located in a different place, which makes it disorganized.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon Elastic Container Service for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We never had any issues with the solution's stability, and all the stability issues were user mistakes. When it's that complex, you can make a lot of mistakes. Amazon is doing what they're promising. I can rate the solution a ten out of ten for stability, but the problem is that it's complex. So, you have downtime because of user mistakes.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Amazon Elastic Container Service is a scalable solution. Five people are working with Amazon Elastic Container Service directly, but all our clients are using it.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is difficult because you need to be aware of different components in different places.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Amazon Elastic Container Service has a decent price, which is neither cheap nor expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Our company chose Amazon Elastic Container Service because they didn't have the skill set to work with Kubernetes before I joined.
Overall, I rate Amazon Elastic Container Service a six out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Senior Solutions Architect at Boeing
An easy to compute solution that can be used to take complete workloads to the cloud
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers."
- "The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon EC2 Container Service to take complete workloads to the cloud for various applications.
How has it helped my organization?
Amazon EC2 Container Service has reduced our infrastructure cost. We migrate some workloads from our on-premises data center to the cloud, where it runs as per the requirement, and we don't have to pay upfront. This helps reduce both the CapEx and OpEx. Some of those managed services help us to reduce the OpEx. On-demand computing efficiently manages the CapEx.
What is most valuable?
Amazon EC2 Container Service has multiple valuable features like load balancers and autoscalers. Amazon EC2 Container Service is easy to compute.
What needs improvement?
The existing domain-joined capability the solution provides during the initial boot-up of the compute should be streamlined and made a little robust. If that fails, you cannot do it again. That part doesn't have any resilience.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon EC2 Container Service for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is a scalable solution. Around 200 users are using Amazon EC2 Container Service in our organization, and we do not plan to increase the usage.
I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service ten out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Amazon EC2 Container Service's technical support is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is fairly easy and not that complex. I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service a nine out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.
What about the implementation team?
The solution's deployment is very fast and takes around a minute. We follow the infrastructure as a whole, run our pipeline, and deploy the solution. One person can handle multiple deployments, even a thousand deployments.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service’s pricing a four or five out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
Amazon EC2 Container Service is deployed on the government AWS cloud.
Users can use Amazon EC2 Container Service for their computing. The robustness of the solution is good. And there are different pricing models, and users can evaluate them depending on the workload. The computing application needs must be evaluated before you choose the solution.
Overall, I rate Amazon EC2 Container Service an eight out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Head of IT at Claro Brasil
A highly stable and scalable solution that can be used by startup businesses to deploy things faster
Pros and Cons
- "Scalability and availability are the most valuable features of Amazon Elastic Container Service."
- "The solution's pricing could be improved."
What is our primary use case?
Amazon Elastic Container Service is where we deploy our microservices. All of our banking services are hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service.
How has it helped my organization?
The time to market that we need to deliver the solutions for our customers was drastically reduced because of Amazon Elastic Container Service.
What is most valuable?
Scalability and availability are the most valuable features of Amazon Elastic Container Service. It removes a lot of work from our infrastructure team to ensure that the structure is available when we have a pick, for example, of the utilization from our clients. In case of problems, we also have the recycling of the services that are conducted and managed by the AWS environment.
What needs improvement?
The solution's pricing could be improved. With Amazon Elastic Container Service, you spend a lot of money in the long term.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon Elastic Container Service for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Amazon Elastic Container Service ten out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Amazon Elastic Container Service ten out of ten for scalability.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is very easy.
What was our ROI?
Amazon Elastic Container Service saves our organization time and money in the short term.
What other advice do I have?
Amazon Elastic Container Service is deployed on-cloud in our organization.
Amazon Elastic Container Service is a very good solution if you are in a startup business and need to deploy things faster and comply with the regulators. I would recommend Amazon Elastic Container Service to other users.
Overall, I rate Amazon Elastic Container Service ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Backend Engineer at Northeastern University
Helps to manage containerized applications and streamline dev environment
Pros and Cons
- "I use the tool to manage containerized applications. What I like about Amazon ECS is the interface it provides. Although the configurations can be extensive, such as setting up auto-scaling groups and configuring separate tasks and services for each application, the interface makes it manageable."
- "The tool initially required a significant amount of development time on the backend, but in terms of efficiency, it's a one-time effort."
What is our primary use case?
The solution helps streamline the entire process for the development and production environments.
What is most valuable?
I use the tool to manage containerized applications. What I like about Amazon ECS is the interface it provides. Although the configurations can be extensive, such as setting up auto-scaling groups and configuring separate tasks and services for each application, the interface makes it manageable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We are a small team. I'm the only one handling cloud deployments. We're talking about around 20 to 30 people, not more than a hundred.
How are customer service and support?
I've contacted Amazon for this product, mainly for troubleshooting issues. However, I haven't reached out to them for anything else. The company's founder handles negotiations for pricing and other matters, so I'm not involved in that aspect.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The solution's deployment is easy since the steps are given in the documentation. I rate it an eight out of ten. It can be completed in a day.
What other advice do I have?
The tool initially required a significant amount of development time on the backend, but in terms of efficiency, it's a one-time effort. Once set up, it can be used for a long time, and maintenance doesn't require much effort. I rate it an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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