--- 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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Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "raising cattle" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Easy and quick to spin up containers. Speeds up deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? metrics and ASGs for the hosts. When new containers are needed, there is no ASG for the hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): better metrics with asg instances (hosts) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Cost and downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign AG Ashish G. SPM Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Productivity" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Convenience of not having to handle the EC2 instances is promoting my team's productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Need higher access to control the EC2 instances under the ECS cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Solving the productivity problems by alleviating dependence on the infrastructure team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign MP Mandeep P. Sr. Devops Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Love the in native clustering option" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Create a task definition, create a service, define the amount of task and forget the rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Not being able to reactivate the deactivated task definitions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): Use it if you haven't already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Cost Optimization and reduced infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") IT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "ECS Helped speed up our development and testing infrastructure stand up" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Container management is easy. Setting up the container definitions and deploying them, then updating them is fairly straight forward and simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Console integration is still a bit clunky. It would be nice to see a more holistic view of active clusters. 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've moved most of our non-production workloads to Amazon ECS. This has allowed for quicker environment stand up and management. We've been able to speed up our development and testing overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign BM Bryan M. Principal Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "container supportAwesome " 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? The ease of submitting is great. Getting up and running could not be easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Nothing -- It is very easy to use and works well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Esst of deployment is our biggest win from this produvt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign SS Spencer S. Sr. DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/29/2018 "It's getting there, but still needs work. " 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? It's a managed container service that ties in with AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Instances still sometimes randomly die, especially when upgrading the agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Long running services that don't need full servers, but wouldn't work with lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "ECS is a quick and easy way to get your services going from bare metal to containers" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I love that task definitions and servies are easy to set up and scale, especially through CI and Infrastructure as Code solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? Currently, to use load baslancing, you have to set a target group at only the creation of the service. I'd love to be able to change it as I go forward to new load balancing solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick autoscaling through CPU and memory utilizations. Allows for greater elasticity and rightsizing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Services") UI Verified User in Information Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "ECS is pretty Decent" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I like that I can see my containers on it and that it's linked to my aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? The task definitions between ecs and fargate aren't always similar. This causes alot of pain when I use ecs instead of fargate or vice verso Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS): I would standard and write better tech syntax for ecs and provide more examples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? The speed and easy linking with ecr make it great to use. So very awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/26/2018 "Amazon EC2s for data processing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I like being able to rapidly spin up additional machines depending on our workload and needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? I wish that the EC2s were able to sync better with OpsWorks, as I've noticed that you can do things like assign an EBS block to an instance under the EC2 page, it doesn't reflect on OpsWorks. 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 use EC2s as hosts for web service endpoints, data processing machines, and analysis for running experimental code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign MP marc p. Director Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "out the door" 4/5 What do you like best about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? this allowed us to get out the door quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)? little complex for the team it took awhile to get to a strong place to deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) solving and how is that benefiting you? this was in out path to prod deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## 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. 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