ECS

Question 1

Which fully managed container orchestration service is designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications?

Answer 1

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Question 2

What are the two launch types supported by ECS?

Answer 2

EC2 and Fargate

Question 3

What is the difference between the ECS launch types?

Answer 3

• EC2: Offers more control but requires more management
  
  • Instances are managed by the customer
  • The customer is responsible for capacity and availability
  • EC2 instances run continuously and must be paid for, regardless of usage
• Fargate: A serverless option for running containerized application workloads
  
  • No servers to manage
  • Utilizes shared Fargate infrastructure
  • Each task is provided with an ENI within the VPC
  • Billed only for the resources consumed by the containers

Question 4

Which ECS launch type is better suited for large, cost-conscious workloads?

Answer 4

The EC2 launch type, especially when using spot or reserved instances

Question 5

Which ECS launch type is better suited for workloads that are overhead-conscious, small/bursty, or batch/periodic?

Answer 5

The Fargate launch type

Question 6

What ECS component represents a self-contained application, consisting of one or more containers?

Answer 6

Task Definition - defines containers, resources, network configuration, task execution role and more

Question 7

What ECS component represents a configuration of the container?

Answer 7

Container Definition - defines ports, image, and more

Question 8

What ECS component provides scalability and availability for tasks?

Answer 8

Service - defines tasks, placement strategy, scaling policy, health checks and more

Question 8

What ECS component groups together the deployment of Tasks or Services?

Answer 8

Cluster