AWS ECS, Fargate & ECR: Running Containers

If your app is packaged as a Docker container, AWS gives you three services that work together to run it: ECS to orchestrate containers, Fargate to run them without managing servers, and ECR to store the images. ECS — Elastic Container Service ECS launches Docker containers on AWS. The key thing about it: you provision and maintain the EC2 instances — the infrastructure — and AWS handles starting and stopping containers across those EC2s....

May 17, 2026 · 2 min · Daman Arora