In this episode, Ben & Chris talk about deploying and scaling web applications using Amazon ECS. They focus on approaches they take when using ECS and container orchestration.
Highlights:
- Overview of Docker Containers
- Overview of Amazon ECS & Container Orchestration
- In-depth discussion of Fargate Spot & Spot instances for cost control
- Standing up a Web Service and auto scaling the service
- Scheduling Jobs in ECS
- Reasons to use Amazon ECS tasks over Lambda functions
Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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