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> I learned not to use it and wait until the k8s fad goes away.

Yup, pretty happy with our move from k8s to ECS. Almost there.

You are basically using a very similiar tool/workflow just as a managed service from Amazon with a hard dependency.

This 'k8s' fad is the open source version of what you are using.

Its like you would say 'monitoring is a fad' we migrated away from monitoring and are now using amazon CloudWatch and are super happy with it.

> This 'k8s' fad is the open source version of what you are using

That would be AWS EKS. ECS is very different beast. Wins big in infra-as-a-code (CFN). And simpler, fully integrated, and you get full AWS support, not the case with EKS or hand rolled kube.

> .. monitoring is a fad ..

We did some pretty fancy things in monitoring. ELK and more. And yes, it uses some useful bits of CW.

Another happy ECS user here. You get most of the benefits of Kubernetes, without a lot of its complexity and maintenance. Yes, it’s a proprietary service and all, but that’s not really an issue. The applications are already containerized and could be moved to any other vendor/tool with relatively low effort if you ever needed to.

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