Containers on AWS

This site is your go-to resource for getting started and going deeper with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate.

From your first deploy to production scale, we've got you covered. Browse production-ready patterns, learn through visual guides, and stay current with the latest from the ECS blog.

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Patterns Collection

Bring your ideas to life with production ready infrastructure as code patterns. Find example snippets across CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi, along with sample task definitions and Dockerfiles.

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Learn container concepts through comic book style visualizations. Explore best practices for networking, security, storage, and scaling, along with Amazon ECS and Kubernetes architecture examples.

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