Containers: ECS & EKS
Running containerized workloads on AWS — Docker fundamentals, orchestrating containers with Amazon ECS, running managed Kubernetes with Amazon EKS, and choosing the right one for a given team and workload.
Container Fundamentals & Orchestration Concepts
beginner~2hWhat a container actually is versus a virtual machine, why Docker won, and why running containers at any real scale requires an orchestrator — the conceptual foundation before ECS or EKS make sense.
ECS Fundamentals: Clusters, Tasks & Services
intermediate~2.5hAmazon ECS's core building blocks — clusters, task definitions, tasks, and services — and the Fargate-vs-EC2 launch type decision that shapes how much infrastructure you manage.
ECS Networking, Task Roles & Deployment Strategies
advanced~3hThe details that make ECS production-ready: network modes, ECR image pulls, task sizing, and safe rollout strategies like rolling updates and blue/green deployments via CodeDeploy.
Amazon EKS: Kubernetes on AWS
advanced~3hRunning managed Kubernetes on AWS — the EKS control plane, node group options, IAM integration for pods, and how EKS compares operationally to ECS.
Amazon ECR: Container Image Registry
beginner~2hAWS's managed Docker/OCI image registry — where the container images that ECS and EKS actually pull from live, with IAM-based access control and vulnerability scanning built in.