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# Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

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> IaaS service designed to provide industries with secure, optimized virtual server environments to manage cloud-hosting operations.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Elastic Compute Service (ECS)?

Elastic Compute Service supports tech-savvy users, such as software engineers, cybersecurity teams, application developers, web-hosting experts, and data analysts.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 3 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Alibaba

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing Details**: Prices vary according to the plan.
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Chat

## Category

- [IaaS Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/32015/infrastructure-as-a-service-solutions/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/16365/azure) — 4.6/5 (1947 reviews)
2. [CenturyLink](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/203477/centurylink) — 3.4/5 (34 reviews)
3. [DigitalOcean](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/205055/digitalocean) — 4.6/5 (158 reviews)
4. [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/219781/ec2) — 4.7/5 (173 reviews)
5. [Terraform](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/179262/hashicorp) — 4.8/5 (49 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Complete solution for scaling microservices" — 5.0/5

> **David Felipe** | *21 November 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's auto-managed nature makes it easier for our organization to cut costs and middleman to build a No-Ops culture. Native docker integration makes it easy to deploy containerized services on an environment ready for rapid scaling. Integration with other AWS services makes it compliant with continuous delivery practices and cybersecurity compliance.
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> **Cons**: As everything in AWS is quite difficult to understand at first , both deploying and orchestrating all the different services that you need to use in conjunction. Also, the price is a little bit high and difficult to estimate when you are just getting used to it. AWS docs are difficult to understand and very incomplete sometimes
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> We are serving a multi tenant multi cluster multi AZ platform that serves more than 20 million people in 14 countries, and ECS is a fundamental part of us able to run such an infrastructure with a small team.

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### "A simple scalable high availability system for comainter management" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *13 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: its simple to use cluster manager and we can easily diagnose issues  and fix it 
Easily scalable system with unlimited number of instances
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> **Cons**: Lacking mode advanced features like internal traffic control and some
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> i have been using this system for more than 5 years without any issues.Am very much confident about this system to implement.

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### "ECS for managing containers in the AWS cloud" — 4.0/5

> **Pawe** | *19 August 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Using ECS helped us move some of the responsibilities from the Developers - it took care of scaling the clusters and installing the infrastructure - while the learning curve is really steep here - in the end we managed to save a lot of time by using it
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> **Cons**: It works well only within AWS, so it seems that Kubernetes is much better choice for cloud agnostic solutions

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