Welcome to the new Containers on AWS Website!

On behalf of the Amazon ECS product team, we are happy to welcome you to a new resource for AWS Builders. Look around and you'll find:

  • Blog posts from the product team, product experts, and customers
  • Blog Posts syndicated from multiple AWS product blogs
  • Code patterns to help you build faster and better
  • Visuals to help you learn and grow with ECS
  • An open community where you can share with other Builders like you!
Thanks for being here, and we look forward to building something amazing together!

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Are you ready to build with containers on AWS?

Containers are great for your application. And AWS is great for containers.

  • Over 2.25 billion Amazon Elastic Container Service tasks are launched every week
  • 65% of all new AWS containers customers use Amazon ECS, driving tens of thousands of API calls per second
  • Largest single account production workload on Amazon ECS: 5.48 million concurrent vCPUs
  • Fastest task placement rate acheived on a single Amazon ECS cluster: 750 tasks/sec
Learn more about Amazon ECS
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Patterns Collection

Building from scratch is hard. Bring your ideas to life with production ready patterns:

  • Example snippets across AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit, Terraform, and Pulumi
  • Bash scripts for deployments and administrative tasks
  • Sample task definitions and Dockerfiles
Patterns
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Visuals Collection

Comic book style visualizations on containers include:

  • Container Platform Best Practices for running your application, networking, security, storage and scaling
  • Amazon ECS Architecture Examples
  • Kubernetes Architecture Examples
  • and more...
Visuals

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