[gaius]

EC2 is not a container scheduler - it's an IaaS for VMs. The Amazon container PaaS (ECS/EKS) is a layer on top of EC2. And that is being superseded by Fargate which will make the underlying EC2 invisible. If you need a Fargate-like capability now, Azure AKS does it.

See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-service... and https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

[coredog64]

Fargate is expensive as hell for long running services. You should only be using it for something that creates value 100% of the time that it is running.

[candiodari]

So what is the EC2 container scheduler before Fargate called ? Any papers on it ?

[gaius]

ECS and EKS.