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Amazon ECS Core Concepts

This presentation covers core concepts of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestration. It is designed to introduce containers on AWS, and the key topics you need to master to be successful with a container deployment. You will learn the following topics:

Core concepts of containers and using Amazon ECS to manage containers on AWS

Amazon ECS Scalability Best Practices

This presentation covers best practices for planning and executing an auto scaling strategy for containers on AWS under Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestration. It covers the following topics:

How to scale a container application using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate

Why use containers for your application?

Containers are a popular open source standard for developing, packaging, and operating applications at scale. There are a few key benefits to using containers:

Packaging

Containers provide you with a reliable way to gather your application components and package them together into one build artifact. This is important because modern applications are usually composed of a variety of pieces that must work together in sync. These pieces include not only your code, but also dependencies, binaries, or system libraries.

What are the benefits of packaging your application as a container?

Why use infrastructure as code?

Infrastructure as code is the process of provisioning and managing your cloud resources by writing a template file that describes what infrastructure you want to create. The template file is both human readable, as well as machine consumable. Humans write or edit the file in order to change what infrastructure they would like in their cloud deployment. An infrastructure as code service then makes automated API calls to actually create or update the infrastructure to match what the infrastructure as code template requested.

Infrastructure as code can help you deploy cloud architecture faster and more reliably.

Hi! I'm Jeramiah!

Hi! I’m Jeramiah Dooley, and I manage the team of Developer Advocates that support ECS, App Mesh, Service Connect and the rest of the components and tools that are used to deploy containerized applications.

Meet Jeramiah Dooley, developer advocate manager at AWS

Hello World

Well, well, well. Look what we have here.

You have no idea how pleased I am to present to the world the newest resources for AWS Builders using Amazon Elastic Container services. We talk a lot about the mind-numbing size and popularity of ECS, including:

Welcome to Containers on AWS, the newest resource for AWS builders who want to deploy containerized applications on Amazon ECS