Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Service

Instructor: Edureka

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1 module

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

1 module

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Understand ECS basics, core concepts, and containerized application workflows on AWS.
Deploy, manage, and scale real-world ECS workloads using best practices.
Integrate ECS with Fargate, networking, security, and cost optimization tools.
Explore hybrid and multi-cloud ECS strategies with practical use cases.

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6 assignments

Taught in English

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Welcome to the Amazon Elastic Container Service course, your hands-on pathway to mastering containerization with AWS ECS and transforming application deployment for scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

This beginner-friendly, hands-on course offers real-world scenarios and guides you through the complete containerization workflow: - Explore the world of containerization and its real-world use cases. - Understand the features and application lifecycle of Amazon Elastic Container Service. - Gain an essential overview of Amazon ECS components, including clusters, task definitions, services, and integrations. - Set up your environment and deploy containers step by step using both AWS Console and CLI. - Monitor, secure, and optimize your ECS applications, learning best practices and troubleshooting strategies based on real-life industry scenarios. This course is designed for freshers, AWS developers, software engineers, solution architects, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals eager to build or upgrade their containerization skills. Start your journey with Amazon ECS, unlock new job opportunities, and gain confidence in running containerized workloads at scale.

Welcome to the introductory course of Amazon Elastic Container Service. This course will help you gain a comprehensive hands-on learning experience on Amazon Elastic Container Service, a powerful and high-performance cloud-based container orchestration service. This course is designed for learners seeking to harness the capabilities of Amazon Elastic Container Service to easily deploy, manage and scale containerized applications.

What's included

34 videos8 readings6 assignments3 discussion prompts

34 videos Total 183 minutes

Course Introduction 7 minutes
Introduction to Containers - Part 1 5 minutes
Introduction to Containers - Part 2 7 minutes
Container management tools (Docker, Amazon ECS , OpenShift) 6 minutes
AWS Account Setup and Navigation 7 minutes
Choosing an AWS Container Service 6 minutes
Introduction to ECS - Part 1 5 minutes
Introduction to ECS - Part 2 3 minutes
ECS Terminology and Features 5 minutes
ECS Application Lifecycle - Part 1 4 minutes
ECS Application Lifecycle - Part 2 4 minutes
Working of ECS and ECR 6 minutes
Amazon ECS Containers and Images 5 minutes
ECS Cluster Concepts 5 minutes
Amazon ECS clusters in Local Zones, Wavelength Zones, and AWS Outposts 6 minutes
Amazon ECS cluster management and auto scaling 5 minutes
Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 1 5 minutes
Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 2 5 minutes
Demonstration - Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 1 6 minutes
Demonstration - Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 2 6 minutes
Create a container image - Part 1 6 minutes
Create a container image - Part 2 6 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 1 5 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 2 5 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 3 7 minutes
AWS ECS Anywhere 5 minutes
Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate 5 minutes
Demonstration - Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate - Part 1 3 minutes
Demonstration - Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate - Part 2 5 minutes
Understand the concepts of Fargate, Task Definitions, Tasks, and Services 6 minutes
Monitoring Amazon ECS and Securing Elastic Container Service 6 minutes
Use with Linux containers on AWS Fargate 5 minutes
Demonstration - Use with Linux containers on AWS Fargate 8 minutes
Scheduling Amazon ECS tasks 4 minutes

8 readings Total 41 minutes

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Service 5 minutes
What is Container Orchestration and it's services 5 minutes
How to Use Discussion Forums 2 minutes
Amazon ECS use cases 5 minutes
Amazon ECS container instances 3 minutes
Get started with the console using Windows on Amazon EC2 10 minutes
Amazon Elastic Container Service – Best Practices and Real World Applications of ECS 8 minutes
Summary 3 minutes

6 assignments Total 45 minutes

Knowledge Check: Overview of Container Service 5 minutes
Knowledge Check: Amazon ECS- Features and Application Lifecycle 5 minutes
Knowledge Check: Amazon ECS- Features and Application Lifecycle 5 minutes
Knowledge Check- Deep Dive in Amazon Elastic Container Service 5 minutes
End Course Knowledge Check 20 minutes
Knowledge Check- Set up to use Amazon ECS 5 minutes

3 discussion prompts Total 9 minutes

What are the distinct characteristics and purposes of virtual machines, images, and containers in the field of computing and software deployment? 3 minutes
What factors should we consider when selecting the appropriate ECS capacity, ECS provisioning, and Amazon ECS features? 3 minutes
How can Linux users effectively initiate their journey with Amazon EC2 and ECS through the console, considering practical implementation and usage scenarios? 3 minutes