Important things to note about ECS and Kubernetes Few basic things about ECS and Kubernetes Basic Information about the AWS ECS and Kubernetes and there Components. AWS ECS Basic Information: AWS ECS is the Docker-suitable container orchestration solution from Amazon. It allows us to run containerised applications on EC2 instances and scale both of them. The below architecture shows the high-level information about ECS. As shown above, ECS Clusters consist of Tasks which run in Docker containers, and container instances, among many other components. Here are some AWS services commonly used with ECS: Elastic Load Balancer : This component can route traffic to containers. 3 kinds of load balancing are available: application, network and classic. Elastic Block Store : This service provides persistent block storage for ECS tasks (workloads running in containers). CloudWatch : This service collects metrics from ECS. Based on CloudWatch metrics, ECS services can be scaled u