--- title: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 283 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 283 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. By eliminating the complexities of infrastructure management, Amazon ECS enables development teams to focus on building and innovating applications without the overhead of managing servers or clusters. Key Features and Functionality: - Flexible Deployment Options: Amazon ECS supports running containers on Amazon EC2 instances, AWS Fargate for serverless compute, and on-premises servers through Amazon ECS Anywhere, providing versatility across different environments. - Integrated Security: The service offers robust security features, including application isolation, IAM roles, automated patching, and encrypted storage, ensuring that applications are protected throughout their lifecycle. - High Performance and Scalability: Amazon ECS automatically scales applications to meet varying demand, maintaining consistent performance and high availability without manual intervention. - Deep AWS Integration: Seamless integration with other AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allows for a cohesive and efficient development and deployment experience. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon ECS addresses the challenges of managing containerized applications by providing a fully managed service that abstracts the underlying infrastructure complexities. This allows development teams to deploy and scale applications rapidly, reduce operational overhead, and enhance security. By leveraging Amazon ECS, organizations can accelerate their application development cycles, improve resource utilization, and focus on delivering business value without the need to manage the intricacies of container orchestration. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 13 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Red Hat OpenShift](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat OpenShift") Red Hat OpenShift 4.5/5(306) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) [ ![Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)") Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) 4.4/5(286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mirantis-kubernetes-engine-formerly-docker-enterprise/reviews) [ ![Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)") Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 4.5/5(260) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 283 real user reviews. 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Sr Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/5/2019 "Best container service " 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Straight forward to instantiate containers. You can define the image definitions and modify them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Nothing much that I dislike. It is difficult when the service is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): Excellent cloud service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We have deployed our company’s data ingestions and KPI reporting in ECS. Lots of cost savings when compared to data center based severs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/8/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/3/2021 "Its very easy to use Container service" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? It saves a lot of server costs and saves a lot of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I have not found any cons as of now as it's easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We are deploying applications to multiple servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2019 "Best container service available for an overall integration to the ecosystem" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? - Easy to use and integrate if you are familiar with docker ecosystem - It has a good documentation when you are using it for the first time - It is not very expensive and it depends on your machine which you had bought from EC2 portal to integrate with ECS - You can always upgrade your ec2 machine and your integration with ECS doesn't fail so this is how robust ECS is. - Load balancing is done so beautifully and its integration with other AWS products is very nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? - A little expensive than google cloud but we have used AWS from starting so we are using this - ECR has a little more steps to integrate it with ECS so if you are not familiar with whole ecosystem then it can cause you difficulties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): - If you are already using the AWS ecosystem then don't think twice and use this container service. It is the best you can get if you are familiar with AWS ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We have lots of small demos and website hosted on AWS so we dockerised them and upload it to ECR. Then we integrate ECR with ECS and update the same. We then update our nginx and connect our port with our EC2 machine and that's it our demo is up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jun K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jun K.") JK Jun K. Senior Motion Design Animator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/4/2020 "Convenient & top class!" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? One of the top class cloud based service available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? More user-friendly to navigate and understand the functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Makes it easy with flexible scale and usability to fit your situation and needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gaurav P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gaurav P.") GP Gaurav P. Senior Software Engineer Entertainment Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/12/2019 "Best Container Service available on cloud" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? - Almost similar to Docker - One of the best load balancing is done by ECS - Inter AWS products are connected so well - Scalable - Memory is well optimised so cost is also not much - Billing is very minimum Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? - Restarting the container is very hectic task - Some of the terms are very confusing, you have to read the documentation carefully Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): If you want to have similar service like docker on cloud then ECS is the one to go for it. With your eyes closed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? - I create many small demos for my team and to host it on ECS is very easy and accessible - Our one of the main product is on this ecosystem so it is also very scalable and our customer are very happy with the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jay K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jay K.") JK Jay K. Intern Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/15/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Best in the market" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I have used Microsoft Azure Cloud services and Amazon cloud services (AWS) mostly. So I will state my differences, advantages of using ECS over others. - Better documentation - Custom Docker like ecosystem (ECR) - Pay as You Go - More Scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? AWS ecosystem is like an awesome eco system where one you get used to it, you always prefer the same channel, similarly like Apple's ecosystem in mobile phones. One of the main thing I dislike is its ECR integration. It has no editable feature also, when I upload the latest container it starts pointing to new container but it should continue to the last one. Also a minor update in configuration require whole new task definition. so it become overhead sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): Flexible Easy to scale Immutable Azure has very old and unintuitive UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Deployment of application on cloud Scalability for the same Multiple micro services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Marketing and Advertising](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Marketing and Advertising") CM Verified User in Marketing and Advertising Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/12/2019 "Easy and quick way to manage containers if you are on AWS" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? As usual one of the important factor with ECS and ECR (they both go hand in hand) is how easy it is to get start. Compared to kubernetes or opneshift lot of less complex to get start and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? If same image needs a different configuration of memory and CPU its not possible to achieve within same cluster. We had to find workaround to achieve this.Also I think ECS is not as matured as Kubernetes, but at the same they may not intend to make ECS as rich as Kubernets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): This service is very easy to get start and setup. Once you have this integrated with your CICD tools, deployment can be really simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? We have several kind of backend services which run on docker containers and ECS is used to run those. We simply create the image and push it to ECR from our on-prem Jenkins. ECS automatically picks up the latest container to run the process. Overall it has been really easy to work with ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Loris P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Loris P.") LP Loris P. CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/29/2019 "ECS is the best container service for your docker workloads" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? It's easy, can be configured both in EC2 mode and as Fargate (to avoid coping with the underlying nodes). It's solid, reliable, and quite straightforward to configure and maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? To configure things you need to set a lot a prerequisites. This reflects in the complexity of the required Cloudformation scripts when you want to deploy workloads in ECS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? You can spin workloads as containers with practically no effort. Using Infra as a Code you can have identical environments for all stages of the CD pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chike I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chike I.") CI Chike I. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/14/2019 "The best and most reliable way to get your online services online" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I love the fact that ECS allows for easy storage, we have been using AWS ECS for over 5 years now and it is most reliable and secured, i also enjoy the fact that there is a daily backup of my entire data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? It is not like your traditional hosting dashboard, you need to really understand what you are looking at before you can configure and use. You might even need an AWS certified engineer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): If you want reliability then use AWS ECS, it is fast and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? It has allowed us to move servers to the fastest depending on our location, we can also quickly deploy new apps or features in no short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/16/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") AI Verified User in Insurance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/13/2019 "ECS for running microservices" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Its easy and fast deploy works seemlessly with Amazon and external APIs that is available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Compatibility with windwos based microservices Automation with external windows agent security between containers needs to be embedded as part of the design otherwise the app can be vulnerable from security point of view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): Try using Fargate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? faster app deployment automation Blue green deployment Ofcourse cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/discussions/new) ![Chike I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chike I.") 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