ECS and EKS: What Works Best for Your Project? | AWS ECS vs EKS | KodeKloud

In this video, we compare two popular container management solutions: Amazon Web Services' Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). We will cover their key features, differences, and use cases to help you choose the right solution for your project. Whether you are new to container management or looking to switch to a different platform, this video is for you. So, sit back, relax, and join us as we navigate the ECS vs EKS debate!
These are the topics covered in this video:
00:00 - Introduction
01:23 - Container Orchestrator
05:00 - What is ECS?
08:19 - Fargate
10:22 - What is EKS?
14:00 - Worker Nodes
19:11 - Difference Between EKS and ECS
25:42 - Conclusion
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[@manishjs19]

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[@yememiwa]

Simply outstanding, thank you. ECS for me - time is money

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[@someguyO2W]

This was an excellent overview. I got all the information I needed. Thank you. I've decided to go with fargate with ecs since I don't want to manage servers but I also don't like kubernetes.

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[@spud5365]

Fantastic video, well explained and to the point. I'd LOVE to see a video about using Terraform to deploy real simple application such as wordpress to ECS or EKS.

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[@codenchill732]

Well explained. Would be great if you can do a video how to deploy an application into ecs,eks including all these functionalities

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[@elabeddhahbi3301]

it would be amazing if you make a serie explaining eks and terraform project with consul

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[@amanuelyohannes7151]

Really great content and epic delivery. Thank you!!! Quick question - Is the number of tasks we can run on an EC2 instance with the same spec using ECS and EKS different? (On some websites I saw that we can run significantly more tasks/pods using EKS)

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[@grahamschuckman3483]

So pretty much use ECS if you can. EKS only really becomes advantageous when you 're a) already using K8s or b) are semi-concerned about vendor lock-in. The part about "when a workload is sufficiently complex use EKS/K8s" always confuses me. What dictates if something is "sufficiently complex?" What can EKS do that ECS can't when it comes to handling complex workloads?

[@KodeKloud]

"EKS advantages over ECS for complex workloads: 1. Native Kubernetes compatibility, leveraging the full power and flexibility of Kubernetes. 2. Advanced networking options with support for plugins like Calico and Weave. 3. Access to the extensive Kubernetes ecosystem with a wide range of tools and add-ons. 4. Customizable Kubernetes configurations for fine-tuning cluster settings. 5. Seamless integration with AWS services, enhancing functionality and simplifying operations."

[@grahamschuckman3483]

@@KodeKloud So the advantage of EKS is that in can use Kubernetes, which makes sense. So that applies to points 1, 3, and 4. But that logic is somewhat recursive, because, again, why is Kubernetes necessary? As for point 2, okay, that makes sense. But when are those advaned networking options needed? For point 5, both ECS and EKS offer that by natively integrating with load balancers, ECR, and VPCs.

[@charlyloc250]

I think EKS and k8s only comes handy when using integrations with external tools, extensions or addons that are easier or sometimes they are just available for K8s. Otherwise if you are on AWS I'll prefer ECS for most of the projects as k8s just add unnecessary complexity and pain when you need to deal with EKS/k8s versions.

[@AbhayNayak]

about ecs vs eks, when you say complex apps, what does it mean? Because I feel if I'm about to start a new project and I've to choose, Fargate gives me everything that EKS has. Can you give an example where EKS will be the only choice over Fargate? EKS has a lot of features, but most of it goes unused by me, what scenarios do I need to consider while choosing EKS?

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[@samuelgarcia178]

Excellent video. I would like ask 2 questions; is supported for ECS; pod or instances auto-scaling according the increase of traffic? In the another question is; can many different ECS container or pod to share a same EFS instance?

[@KodeKloud]

"1. ECS supports auto-scaling for both tasks (pods) and EC2 instances based on traffic increases. 2. Yes, multiple ECS containers or pods can share the same EFS instance for concurrent access to shared data."

[@Victor-em1ms]

I heard that that GPU set up with ECS was a pain. I would have love to have the use case of GPU integration mention for another video on similar subject

[@KodeKloud]

Good point!

[@anandhukraju9382]

Fargate creates worker node on demand, does that mean if my currrent worker node can't handle any more pods, it'll automatically spin up a new worker node and create pods on that?

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Yes, you don't need to care about it.

[@javed-1303]

Good explanation, can you please let me know which application you were using to handle the lecture

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[@camilohenaoalvarez]

What happens if I use only Fargate instead of ECS + Fargate? What could happen? Since Fargate is serverless and the ec2 instances would be managed by AWS, what is the reason to use ECS + Fargarte? Nice video. thank you

[@cork1576]

Fargate is just the abstracted compute infrastructure used to place containers in ECS or EKS. If you create a Fargate cluster in ECS, you can't add EC2 instances in the same cluster. You would choose Fargate over EC2 if you don't want to deal with managing instances and optimizing capacity. Fargate is much more expensive than running the same resource capacity in EC2, but if you aren't fully utilizing your EC2 resources, you are essentially paying for something you aren't using. Fargate is a pay by usage model so it's a great choice when you need to launch short lived tasks or don't want to manage your own auto scaling groups.

[@onelife7284]

what level of access we will have in EKS to the control plane, like etcd-database access etc.

[@KodeKloud]

AWS EKS is a managed Kubernetes offering. Kubernetes control plane components such as API Server, and ETCD are installed, managed, and upgraded by AWS. Hence you can neither see these components nor can exec into these components. In AWS EKS you can only play with the worker nodes

[@rajsaraogi]

ECS with Fargate how is different from EKS

[@KodeKloud]

ECS with Fargate is a serverless container orchestration service provided by AWS, while EKS is a managed Kubernetes service. ECS with Fargate abstracts away the underlying infrastructure and offers simplicity, while EKS provides more control and customization through Kubernetes.

[@javed-1303]

Good explanation, can you please let me know which application you were using to handle the lecture ??

[@KodeKloud]

Thanks for appreciating our work. We used PPT and some animations to handle the lecture. Hope that helps!