Comparison Chart
Feature | Amazon ECS | Amazon EKS | AWS Fargate | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Container Orchestration Service | Kubernetes Container Orchestration | Serverless Container Engine | |
Cluster Management | Fully managed | Fully managed | Fully managed | |
Deployment | Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling | Rolling | Rolling | |
Autoscaling | Manual or Dynamic | Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) | Automatic or Manual | |
Load Balancing | Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB) | Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) | |
Compute Resources | EC2 Instances | EC2 Instances | Serverless | |
Pricing Model | Pay for EC2 Instances | Pay for EC2 Instances and EKS Control Plane | Pay for Compute Resources | |
Networking | VPC and Security Groups | VPC and Security Groups | VPC and Security Groups | |
Container Management | Task Definitions and Container Instances | Kubernetes Pods | Tasks and Services | |
Customizable | Customizable task definitions, IAM roles | Customizable worker nodes, Kubernetes YAML | Customizable task definitions | |
Integration | Integration with AWS services | Integration with AWS services | Integration with AWS services | |
Logging and Monitoring | AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray | Kubernetes Metrics and Logs | AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray |