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Amazon Elastic Container Service

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What it does
Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for building, managing, and running containerized workloads.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Intended users
AWS says ECS serves teams running containerized workloads and describes customers ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Compliance
AWS says it supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Support
AWS lists support as a way to access proactive guidance, issue resolution, and support tools.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Application security
AWS describes ECS security features including application isolation, granular container permissions, IAM roles, automated patching, and encryption in transit and at rest.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Container image repositories
ECS can retrieve images from third-party hosted Docker repositories or accessible private registries, including Docker Hub and Amazon ECR.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Fargate storage
Each Fargate task receives 20 GB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge; additional configured storage is billed, up to 200 GB.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Hybrid deployments
ECS Anywhere lets customers manage on-premises container workloads using the ECS console and operator tools.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Pricing limits
Fargate usage is billed by requested vCPU, memory, and storage, rounded up to the nearest second, with a one-minute minimum charge.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Scaling
ECS helps teams deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without managing the orchestration control plane, nodes, or add-ons.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Serverless compute
AWS Fargate is built into ECS and handles scaling and infrastructure management for containers launched with Fargate.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Supported containers
ECS supports management of Windows containers and provides an ECS-optimized Windows Amazon Machine Image.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Threat detection
ECS integrates with Amazon GuardDuty to help detect external threats to workloads.Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

Amazon ECS orchestration Free No additional charge for orchestration; pay for underlying compute and resources used. Underlying compute and resource charges apply Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
ECS Anywhere $0.01 a month $0.01025 per registered on-premises instance/hour; billed hourly with a one-hour minimum. Per registered on-premises instance · Underlying resource charges may apply Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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