A deep dive into resilience and availability on Amazon Elastic Container Service

Introduction

In this post, we’ll deep dive into the architecture principles we use in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). We’ll outline some of the features that Amazon ECS delivers to make it easy for your application to achieve high availability and resilience. We explore how Amazon ECS is designed to use AWS availability and resilience patterns and how these are surfaced in the Amazon ECS API for easy consumption. With this deeper insight, we believe you will be well positioned to choose the best Amazon ECS configuration and features for your solutions needs.

Our goal at AWS is to remove undifferentiated heavy lifting from our customers in order to enable you to focus on innovating for your business. Many modern applications need to be resilient to various failure modes and highly available. Building resilient and highly available solutions can be challenging and time consuming and often that investment – although critical to business success – isn’t in itself something …