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Containers

Fargate

A serverless compute engine for containers that works with ECS and EKS. Removes the need to provision and manage servers. You specify and pay for resources per application without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Related Containers Terms

ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Integrated with ECS and EKS with built-in image scanning and lifecycle policies.

ECS (Elastic Container Service)

A fully managed container orchestration service that supports Docker containers. Run and scale containerized applications on a managed cluster of EC2 instances or with Fargate for serverless containers.

EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

A managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own control plane. Integrates with AWS services for networking, security, and monitoring.

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