Migration considerations – Cloud Foundry to Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate

Introduction

Customers often turn to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale their applications, reduce latency, and deploy new features quickly with pay as you go approach. Let’s take the case of customers running hundreds of applications using Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS). To achieve cost efficiency, customers can migrate to AWS container services, which makes it easier to manage underlying infrastructure so that customers can focus on innovation and business needs. AWS provides two main services to manage containers: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is an AWS opinionated fully managed solution for running containers at scale, whereas Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes platform. This post provides recommendation to customers looking to migrate their applications from Cloud Foundry PaaS to Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized …