Introduction to Microservices, Containers, and ECS

This lesson covers microservices and how a microservices-based architecture differs from a monolithic architecture. It also explains what containers are and how you can create your own and then run them in AWS using the Elastic Container Service (ECS).

Learning Objectives

• Learn about microservices and the benefits that a microservice-based architecture or application has over a monolithic application 
• Understand the difference between containers and virtual machines
• Learn how to create your own containers and run them within ECS and deploy them either serverlessly or on ec2 instances

Intended Audience

• Solutions architects, developers, or anyone interested in learning about containerized workloads within the AWS cloud

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a decent understanding of cloud computing and cloud architectures, specifically with Amazon Web Services.