How Amazon's EC2 Container Service is Growing in the Public Cloud | Linux Today

How Amazon’s EC2 Container Service is Growing in the Public Cloud

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 16, 2017

Three and a half years ago, Deepak Singh was a principal product product manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and customers were asking him about enabling capabilities to run Docker containers.

While it was possible to run Docker on EC2 just like any other type of software, it became clear to Singh and AWS that a broader service was required. That broader service is the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), which Singh now oversee as General Manager.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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