# Amazon ECS Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Amazon ECS Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Container Security products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/234183/Amazon-ECS --- # Amazon ECS Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Amazon ECS ## What is Amazon ECS? Fully managed container orchestration service that helps users easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. ## What is Amazon ECS used for? [Container Security](https://www.capterra.com/container-security-software/) Overall rating Based on 11 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... 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[### Google Cloud Run](https://www.capterra.com/p/268691/Google-Cloud-Run/) [4.4 (29)](https://www.capterra.com/p/268691/Google-Cloud-Run/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.0 (11) Ease Of Use 4.2 (29) Value For Money 4.4 (9) Value For Money 4.4 (27) Customer Service 4.4 (9) Customer Service 4.1 (26) ## Amazon ECS alternatives [Datadog](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/) [4.6 (360)](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/reviews/) Starting price $15.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/135453/Datadog-Cloud-Monitoring/) [Dynatrace](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) [4.6 (83)](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/reviews/) Starting price $0.08 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 92% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/81932/Dynatrace/) Highest Rated [Docker](https://www.capterra.com/p/148132/Docker/) [4.6 (536)](https://www.capterra.com/p/148132/Docker/reviews/) Starting price $7.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/148132/Docker/) [Snyk](https://www.capterra.com/p/172252/Snyk/) [4.6 (21)](https://www.capterra.com/p/172252/Snyk/reviews/) Starting price $98.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 86% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/172252/Snyk/) ## Pricing Value for money 4.4 (9) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Value for money 4.4 (9) 4.4 Based on 9 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.4 (9) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.4 (9) 4.4 Based on 9 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.8 Based on 11 reviews Filter by rating 5(9) 4(2) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent SC supun c. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software ### "Love this" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 13, 2023 I did some research before using this service and found out that this is the most demanded container ochestration service available and after using this with my experience, I can say that is true. Pros Very flexible service where we can choose to run our containers and it is highly scalable. This is highly available and we can ensure that the service is always running. I am using EC2 instances and cloud watch integrated with container service. Cons I think the complexity of learning about how to use this service was the main difficulty that I faced because I haven't used any container ochestration service before. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VD viraj d. Associate Software Engineer Computer Software ### "One of the reliable services of AWS" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 13, 2023 I have only used Amazon ECS for few months in my current employment and I found it as a tool that saves our time a lot. Pros As developers, this help us to integrate with docker and manage the docker containers on either EC2 instances or fargate depending on our preference. We can check the health status of containers and can manage on premises container workloads. Cons For larger deployments, set-up and configure tasks are somewhat complex. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. BW buddhi w. Senior software engineer Computer Software ### "Good solution for container management" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 12, 2023 It has been few months since I started using amazon elastic container service to manage docker containers and this saves my time a lot. Pros We can easily scale up or down based on the demand and it provides a fully completed solution for deploying and managing containerized applications. This gives multiple security features like limiting access to the docker containers using IAM roles. Cons The disadvantage I see is the cost. It is very costly for organizations that are not already using AWS services. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. TN teran n. Software Engineer Computer Software ### "High performing service" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 March 7, 2023 I have used several amazon services in my career and started using amazon ECS recently to run our backend projects. Pros This is highly scalable and high performance service where we can run our projects an tests on docker containers. Security for those containers is a must. Since ECS is integrated with amazon IAM, we can enable permissions and restrict access levels for each container. All we have to do is configure things and deploying and the rest of the things will be managed by AWS. Cons First I felt like some navigations are bit complex and not user friendly. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. HW hasini w. software engineer Computer Software ### "Highly scalable and reliable solution" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 February 25, 2023 I was able to work with several amazon cloud products till I joined the current company. Among those, I'm using amazon ECS service to run our projects and virtual machines. Pros ECS clusters handle the containers and monitor the clusters. It integrates with management tools and security tools which amazon has and that develop our trust regarding the ECS. Also this has several scheduling mechanisms where we can schedule batch processing jobs and long time running processes. Cons When I started using ECS, I had zero knowledge. I had to go through documentations and tutorials to get knowledge. So as a starter, there is a big learning curve. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AS Aldrin Sean B. Manager Fund-Raising ### "Best of Amazon" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 25, 2023 I love Amazon. It holds me back from running all over town to search for things and you can quite often track down things less expensive on Amazon. Pros My items I got where up to norm and was a day ahead of schedule. Amazon has never bombed me, other than the Visas you should must have an ideal FICO rating to get any card on Amazon which is a very bummer. Cons Assuming that I at any point run into an issue, I contact the confidential dealer and every one of my issues are addressed by the vender. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SA Sakthi A. System Administrator Computer Software ### "Best Container Management tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 30, 2022 Good Product Pros Elastic Container Service are very useful for container applications auto scale,load balancing and deploy containers easily. Cons Not getting any problems based on our usage in AWS ECS. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Devips manager Information Technology and Services ### "A simple system fully integrated with aws without operational burdens " 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 24, 2022 Overall its a good system for small to medium-sized company to use containerized systems Pros Its simply integrated system to manage containers Cons No advanced controls over traffic management and monitoring Switched from [Amazon EC2](https://www.capterra.com/p/219781/EC2/) [Dedicated Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/184457/Dedicated-Server/) Its easy and automated way to manage container based loads Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Pawe W. Software Engineer Computer Software ### "ECS for managing containerized Applications" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 2.0 2.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 August 11, 2022 Pros I enjoyed how well it integrates with other AWS tools including CloudFormation and EC2. It is indeed quite hard to maintain and configure ECS, but it seems to be so with other tools used to manage containers. Cons It includes substantially less features than Kubernetes for example and it is not cloud agnostic. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Director, Internet Strategy Publishing ### "ECS - Contain your excitement" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 2.0 2.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 June 5, 2022 Our original setup at AWS was heavily OpsWorks/Chef based. But as the Docker ecosystem has grown over the past 5 years, we've moved almost everything over to using a CodePipeline/CodeBuild/ECS system. Most of this has to do with the advantages Docker has: no recipes to keep up to date, no scripts to debug, local instances look identical to what runs on staging/prod, so deploys have fewer hiccups. Clearly AWS feels the same way -- if you look at the OpsWorks control panel today, you'll see it's not getting a lot of love from Amazon these days. Once you wrap your head around the multiple layers of abstractions, it just works. But that's not always easy. Code Pipeline runs Builds in CodeBuild, that result in containers that get put into tasks that are running on instances. At least, that's how I think it works :) So it can be hard to track down exactly where your code is running: you have to not just find the instance, but then the container on that instance. And one instance may be running a load of containers. But that's ok -- virtualization is what you should be doing anyway. ECS helps you manage the relationships between these containers and the instances they live on in one simple spot. Like everything at AWS, the interface takes some getting used to -- and it's very easy to get lost in the 6 clicks it takes to get from one place to the next. But the power of ECS cannot be denied. Pros \* Containers are so much easier to manage than Chef recipes \* Docker ecosystem is growing; OpsWorks is not \* Integrates nicely with CodePipeline \* Running containers locally not different at all from running on prod Cons \* Not always easy to find the specific task/instance you want \* Levels of abstraction are hard to wrap your head around sometimes Switched from [AWS OpsWorks](https://www.capterra.com/p/234840/AWS-OpsWorks/) OpsWorks feels like it's no longer supported at AWS. It still works, but the UI is kind of off-kilter, and some of our projects will no longer build properly because they seem to have issues with changes that have been made to git. We are going to migrate everything off of OpsWorks and onto ECS eventually. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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