Amazon Elastic Container Service
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What both publish
| Fact | Amazon Elastic Container Service | OpenFaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Intended users | AWS says ECS serves teams running containerized workloads and describes customers ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments. | The pricing page describes CE for personal use, hobbyists, and experimentation, Standard for a single team or tenant, and Enterprise for large organisations and SaaS teams. |
| Scaling | ECS helps teams deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without managing the orchestration control plane, nodes, or add-ons. | OpenFaaS supports workload-tuned autoscaling, including scaling to zero when idle. |
| Support | AWS lists support as a way to access proactive guidance, issue resolution, and support tools. | Standard includes self-service email support; Enterprise support is a separate agreement with business-day SLA support and direct engineering support via Slack. |
| What it does | Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for building, managing, and running containerized workloads. | OpenFaaS deploys serverless functions and microservices to Kubernetes. |
Amazon Elastic Container Service plans
- Amazon ECS orchestrationFree
- ECS Anywhere$0.01 a month
OpenFaaS plans
- Community Edition (CE)Free
- OpenFaaS Standard$1,250 a month
- OpenFaaS for EnterprisesPriced on request
Pick Amazon Elastic Container Service if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick OpenFaaS if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.