This section describes our test environment hosted in an AWS ECS Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.
With simple API calls, you can launch and stop Docker-enabled applications, query the complete state of your application, and access many familiar features such as IAM roles, security groups, load balancers, Amazon CloudWatch Events, AWS CloudFormation templates, and AWS CloudTrail logs.
While it is quite possible to run the application directly in EC2 Instances we then become responsible for maintaining the images and some elements of the deployment will become AWS specific. By using Docker containers we are able to run the same builds both locally on dev machines and on different cloud hosts using the same configurations.
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