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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer

Amazon Web Services and Amazon via AWS Skill Builder

Overview

This course goes beyond the basic concepts and benefits of containerization and teaches you more about the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). You will learn about the implementation of containers on AWS using ECS and complementary services, such as the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). You will also learn about common microservices scenarios.


Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

  • Cloud developers
  • IT operations staff
  • DevOps engineers
  • Technical decision makers


Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Describe the challenges of scaling microservices architectures to the enterprise level
  • Define ECS concepts, such as cluster, task, task definition, and services
  • Describe the importance of scheduling to container-based workloads
  • Differentiate between the Fargate and EC2 Launch types
  • Select appropriate task placement strategies
  • Describe integration patterns with common container-based workloads on AWS
  • Describe how to enforce security on ECS tasks


Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

  • Introduction to Containers, or a basic understanding of container concepts
  • Basic networking familiarity
  • Basic familiarity with AWS
  • Working knowledge of virtualization


Delivery Method

This course is delivered through:

  • Digital training


Duration

  • 30 minutes


Course Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

  • What is Amazon ECS?
  • Scalability and microservices architectures
  • ECS components: Tasks and services
  • What are task placement strategies?
  • How does ECS integrate with other AWS services?
  • How is security enforced on ECS tasks?

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