Docker containers produced a seismic shift in how applications are built and managed. The free control plane is one.
However, it’s our experience that with little to no effort, you are able to achieve the same or greater level of integration than ECS. Another advantage of ECS is the initial simplicity in terms of setup, integration and operations. EKS makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale … It can also limit the accessibility of resources such as S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, SQS, etc. But it’s definitely worth checking out Fargate, which has the potential to greatly simplify administration of your container infrastructure. ECS or EKS is a decision that many teams face when looking for a container orchestrator platform on AWS. In EKS, a dedicated network interface mapped to Pod. For example, you could have staging and production namespaces running in the same cluster while sharing resources across environments, reducing spare capacity in your clusters. We even expect EKS to get more attention compared to ECS in the near future. We leverage our expertise and knowledge to offer our customers with a ready to use Kubernetes platform, fully maintained and monitored, that already follows best practices and has all the needed add-ons deployed.
We’ll show a simple example that you can try, one using a pre-built image freely available from the AppDynamics Docker Store with the Java Agent already installed and configured. Which is best for you, ECS or EKS? The only cost difference between ECS and EKS is that EKS is subjected to an additional cost of running the master nodes (across 3 availability zones) on On-Demand instances (this is due to the fact that the Kubernetes control plane must always be available and redundant, as EKS manages the master nodes separate from the worker nodes). Feel free to add your comments if you think we forgot some! By using it as your central container platform, you’re committed to a proprietary container platform. As I write this, Fargate support is only available for ECS, but Amazon has announced that Fargate will also support EKS before the end of the year. I discussed ECS vs. Kubernetes before EKS was a thing. Rather, you must name the environment variables for the agents in each container, if you aren’t naming them another way.
With ECS, AWS targets basic workloads with simple architectures, that need just some CPU and memory to run and won’t evolve all that much over time. While the default model is to deploy containers to EC2 instances, Amazon ECS also leverages AWS Fargate, so you can deploy containers without the need to provision servers. If you want the flexibility to integrate externally with the open-source Kubernetes community, spending the additional effort on setting up EKS may be the better option. And then there’s the EC2 vs. Fargate question. Opsani leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning, particularly deep reinforcement learning, to predict traffic spikes and resource requirements will accurately predict the best moment to scale up or down, and seamlessly integrates with AWS tooling to iteratively automate systems tuning processes.