[nzoschke]

It's really hard to replace the simplicity and reliability of letting ASG (and generally CloudFormation) roll out new instances.

However best practices always evolve...

I'd say that rolling out containers on ECS is starting to really show advantages.

It is now generally:

- easier to build and push an image than burn an AMI - faster to boot a container than an instance - faster to finish a deploy with options like min containers in service and a slack instance or two

To be honest most teams don't actually need the extra agility that containers promise.

But if I was starting an AWS setup from scratch I'd strongly consider containers on ECS.

In addition to the speed there is more portability with containers and a whole new generation of tools coming in the ecosystem.