“Are you a Docker person or a Kubernetes person?”

“AWS ECS is for you if you like using Docker!”

“AWS EKS is for you if you love Kubernetes!”

“AWS Fargate is for you if do not want the grunt work of managing either Docker or Kubernetes!”

While we have heard such statements from cloud engineers on several accounts, each of these services surprisingly look similar at the top level, but have their own characteristics and advantages. (Check out this comic here 😆).

To give you a quick walk through, here’s a table with few key curated facts.

ECS Vs. EKS Vs. Fargate in a Nutshell

If you think we have missed out on any good points, do tweet to us at @totalcloudio.

Thanks to Marc Weaver at Databasable, who helped us curate few interesting observations he made while working with these services.

References:

https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/faqs/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/service_limits.html

https://medium.com/becloudy/amazon-container-cheat-sheet-d5d05469181c

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/87r6uo/understanding_amazons_container_services_ecs_eks/

Note: Originally published at blog.totalcloud.io on June 29, 2018.