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Frank O.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

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Ashish G.
SPM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

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Mandeep P.
Sr. Devops Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Telecommunications
IT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.

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Bryan M.
Principal Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

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Spencer S.
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Computer Software
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Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Information Services
UI
Verified User in Information Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"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.

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marc p.
Director
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.