Should I use ECS or EKS for containers on AWS?
Choose ECS on Fargate for simplicity and minimal ops; pick EKS when you need Kubernetes portability, multi‑service platforms, or existing K8s skills. In both cases, push images to ECR, use health checks and autoscaling, centralize logs/metrics, and deploy via CI/CD.
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Containers & Kubernetes — RCCPI
Containers & Kubernetes
From single container to production EKS with GitOps.
Good starting paths
ECS on Fargate for simple containerized apps (no servers) EKS for multi‑service platforms and portability CI/CD to push images to ECR; IaC for repeatable infra
Operations
Health checks, autoscaling, and rolling updates Centralized logs/metrics; alerting on SLOs Backup manifests and cluster state
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