AWS ECS, or Amazon Elastic Container Service, is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Amazon Web Services. Designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications, ECS integrates deeply with the AWS ecosystem, allowing users to launch containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances or with AWS Fargate for serverless compute. With ECS, businesses can maintain high levels of application availability, streamline resource utilization, and implement microservices architectures without the operational complexities of traditional container management systems. Its tight-knit integration with services like AWS IAM, Amazon ECR, and AWS CloudFormation ensures a cohesive, secure, and scalable containerized application deployment environment.
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools: