[scribu]

No, ECS is a homegrown container orchestration service that has no relationship with Kubernetes.

EKS is the optimized-for-AWS version of Kubernetes.

There’s also AWS Fargate, which is a more managed version of ECS.

[thramp]

There were public presentations where Fargate would have an EKS deployment option.

(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but don't have inside knowledge of the AWS Containers Organization's plans.)

[k__]

ECS was specifically created to work good with AWS.

How can EKS be better for AWS customers?

[ec109685]

Because the open source kubernetes components have thousands of developers contributing to the code, as well a whole ecosystem of components built to kubernetes’ api.