Introduction to Amazon ECS

This course is an introduction to the Amazon ECS Container Service (ECS). ECS is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker. This course will provide a detailed introduction to what ECS is and how to get started using it. ECS has built-in support for many Amazon EC2 services and also allows you to customize parts of the infrastructure to meet your application-specific needs. This course will also provide a brief overview of the rich ecosystem that is developing around EC2 including continuous integration, scheduling, and monitoring.

Intended audience

This course is for developers or operation engineers looking to deploy containerized applications on Amazon EC2. Experience with container technology (e.g. Docker) or Amazon EC2 would be helpful but is not required.

Prerequisites

To prepare for taking this course, we recommend taking the Fundamentals of AWS learning path as well as our Introduction to Docker course.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the concepts around running Docker containers on Amazon EC2.
• Run and configure containers on EC2
• Understand the ecosystem around EC2 Container Service (ECS) to help guide next steps

This Course Includes

• Over 45 minutes of high-definition video
• Hands-on demo

What You'll Learn

• Course Intro: An introduction to what we will be covered in this course.
• EC2 Overview: In this detailed overview we’ll cover task definition, resource allocation, service definition, capacity, load balancing, scheduling, cluster configuration and Security
• EC2 Demo: A hands-on demo of the EC2 service.
• AWS Related Services: In this lesson, we’ll go through ELB, EBS, and IAM.
• Ecosystem: In this lesson, you’ll learn about third-party applications and services ecosystems
• Summary: A wrap-up and summary of what we’ve learned in this course.