Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) vs. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications. By eliminating the complexities of infrastructure management, Amazon ECS enables development teams to focus on building and innovating applications without the overhead of managing servers or clusters.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a single point of failure. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from partners and the Kubernetes community. Applications running on any standard Kubernetes environment are fully compatible and can be easily migrated to Amazon EKS.