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Beyond the Function: A Lambda Developer Discovers ECS

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Brian McNamara
Brian McNamara
Software Developer

You containerized a Lambda function. Then you moved it to AWS Fargate, and it just...worked.

But here's the part I glossed over: Fargate isn't a service you deployed to. It's a launch type. When you ran that task, you had your first encounter with Amazon ECS — and you quietly accepted a bunch of defaults you didn't even know you were choosing.

So what is ECS, really?