[beck5]

I am getting lost with all the ways to run containers on AWS. Is this the equivalent of google compute engines beta option to boot from a docker container?

[stuaxo]

As a contractor, I come into places and use stuff for about 6 months then move onto the next place with a different setup.

The Amazon stuff is especially confusing, it seems they have reinvented just about everything with their own jargon, it really doesn't help.

[NathanKP]

AWS employee here on the ECS team. ECS on Fargate would be the closest thing to what you are asking for. Upload a container image, create a Fargate cluster, and launch a service on that cluster that runs your container.

[soccerdave]

Is this available today? I thought that's what I heard, but I'm not seeing anything in the AWS console.

[NathanKP]

It's currently available in the us-east-1 region, under the ECS service in the console. Create a new cluster and Fargate will be an option for launching and operating the cluster.

[soccerdave]

Thanks! I must have missed that bit about us-east-1 only

[brazzledazzle]

It's frustrating how hit or miss their service availability is in each region. I can understand other countries with different laws and regulations but they can't even get some services multi-region in the US.

[TheIronYuppie]

Google Employee here

It's closest analog is Azure Container Instances or Google App Engine Flex.