Amazon ECS and EKS · AWS Partner · Los Angeles
Pack your apps neatly, release them without holding your breath.
Containers bundle an app with everything it needs, so it runs the same on a laptop and in production. Amazon ECS is AWS’s own scheduler for them; Amazon EKS runs Kubernetes for you; AWS Fargate removes the servers underneath either one. We pick the right mix with you, move your apps across, set up deploys that can roll back, and keep the cluster tidy and cheap.
ECS, EKS or Fargate, chosen per workload
Services that keep Zoho in step
AWS PartnerAlso a Zoho Advanced Partner
01When containers on AWS pay off
Both run Docker-style containers across a fleet and restart them when they fail. ECS is simpler and AWS-only; EKS is standard Kubernetes, so it carries more moving parts and more portability. They shine for apps that run all day and change often. For tiny jobs or a brochure site, something lighter usually wins.
02ECS and EKS consulting
Five jobs cover almost every container project we take on. Smaller teams usually start with design and migration; larger ones call us when the cluster already exists and the bill or the release process hurts.
ECS or EKS, Fargate or EC2 capacity, private subnets, load balancers, service discovery and how tasks get their secrets.
Dockerfiles written or cleaned up, images in Amazon ECR, and a cutover plan for each service that keeps the old one warm.
A pipeline that builds, scans and deploys on merge, with blue/green or rolling releases and an automatic way back.
One IAM role per task or service account, image scanning in ECR, no secrets baked into images, private registries only.
CPU and memory requests that match real use, Graviton where images allow, Spot for jobs that can restart, and Savings Plans for the steady base.
03One release, start to finish
Version 41 (blue) serves customers while version 42 (green) starts beside it. Green gets test traffic first, then production traffic moves over, and blue stays up for a bake period in case you need it back. Drag the slider to walk through it.
ECS has blue/green built in, with lifecycle hooks and a bake time. On EKS we usually do it with Argo Rollouts or weighted target groups on the load balancer.
Green is up and passing health checks. Customers are all on blue.
Sample release
04Try it · sample guidance
Answer four questions. The scores lean on what we see in real projects: team skills matter more than feature lists. Fargate isn’t a rival to ECS or EKS; it’s the serverless capacity that can sit under either, so it gets its own score.
Our sample pick: ECS on Fargate
Sample guidance from four answers. On a call we look at your code, traffic and team before recommending anything.
05Containers + Zoho
Your product runs in containers; your sales and money live in Zoho CRM and Zoho Books. These are the patterns we build most often to join them, each one with retries so a busy API never drops a record.
Zoho CRM
Load balancer or API GatewayECS serviceA Zoho CRM webhook hits an endpoint in front of your app’s container service, which checks the signature and creates the account and first invoice draft.
on: Deal.Stage = "Closed Won"
Your app
SQS queue
Worker → Zoho InventoryOrders land in a queue; a worker service scales with the backlog and posts sales orders, backing off when Zoho’s rate limit says wait.
scale on: ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible
Task or CronJob
Zoho AnalyticsA scheduled ECS task or Kubernetes CronJob sums product usage per account and pushes it to Zoho Analytics, next to revenue.
schedule: cron(0 7 * * ? *)
Only two apps and no code of your own? Zoho Flow can join them with no container in sight. A handful of functions living next to Zoho data? Zoho Catalyst is lighter than any cluster.
06ECS, EKS and Fargate pricing
ECS itself adds no charge when you run it on EC2 or Fargate; you pay for the compute underneath. EKS adds a fee per cluster per hour on top of the compute. Fargate bills the vCPU and memory each task or pod asks for, by the second. Here are AWS’s US East (N. Virginia) list rates.
| What | List rate, US East (N. Virginia) | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon ECS on EC2 or Fargate | $0no extra charge for ECS | ECS Managed Instances add a per-instance management fee on top of EC2; ECS Anywhere is $0.01025 per on-prem instance per hour |
| Amazon EKS cluster | $0.10per cluster per hour, standard support | Standard support covers a Kubernetes version for its first 14 months; after that, extended support is $0.60 per cluster per hour |
| EKS Auto Mode | Per instancefee by instance type, per second | Charged on top of the EC2 price for the nodes Auto Mode launches and manages |
| Fargate, Linux on x86 | $0.000011244per vCPU-second · $0.000001235 per GB-second | About $0.0405 per vCPU-hour and $0.0044 per GB-hour; 1-minute minimum |
| Fargate, Linux on Arm (Graviton) | $0.0000089944per vCPU-second · $0.0000009889 per GB-second | Roughly 20% under x86 for the same size, if your images build for Arm |
| Fargate storage and Spot | 20 GBephemeral storage included per task or pod | Fargate Spot runs interruptible ECS tasks at up to 70% off regular Fargate prices |
Sample math, 730 hours a month: one EKS cluster is $0.10 × 730 = $73 before any compute. One always-on Fargate task with 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB on x86 is about (0.5 × $0.0405 + 1 × $0.0044) × 730 ≈ $18. Load balancers, NAT gateways, logs and data transfer are billed by their own services.
AWS list prices in USD before tax; other Regions differ and AWS updates rates, so we re-price your exact task sizes before you commit. Our part is separate: one fixed price for the container work, written into a signed BRD before the first image is built. The first call costs nothing.
07ECS and EKS questions
Short answers on cost, Kubernetes, Fargate, migration and deploys. Bring your Dockerfile or your current cluster setup to the first call and we’ll answer for your case.
Both run containers across a group of servers. Amazon ECS is AWS’s own orchestrator with simple concepts (task definitions, services, clusters) and no extra charge. Amazon EKS is managed Kubernetes: AWS runs the control plane, you get standard Kubernetes APIs and tools, and you pay $0.10 per cluster per hour in US East on standard support. ECS is usually quicker to learn; EKS fits teams that already know Kubernetes or need it to be portable.
No. Fargate is a way to run containers without managing servers, and it works under both ECS and EKS. You pick an orchestrator (ECS or EKS) and then a capacity type (Fargate or EC2 instances). Fargate bills the vCPU and memory each task or pod requests, by the second with a one-minute minimum.
In US East (N. Virginia) each EKS cluster costs $0.10 per hour while its Kubernetes version is in standard support, which is the first 14 months after release in EKS. After that, extended support costs $0.60 per cluster per hour. The servers, Fargate capacity, load balancers and storage are billed on top. One cluster for a full 730-hour month is $73 before any compute.
The orchestrator is: ECS has no charge of its own, while EKS adds a cluster fee. The bigger cost is the compute underneath, which is priced the same either way. For a small team, the real saving with ECS is usually fewer hours spent running the platform.
For large, steady workloads that can be packed tightly onto right-sized EC2 instances with Savings Plans, EC2 often costs less per vCPU. Fargate tends to win for small or spiky services, because you never pay for half-empty servers or the time to patch them. Fargate Spot can cut interruptible ECS tasks by up to 70%.
Yes. We write or tidy the Dockerfile, push images to Amazon ECR, move config into Secrets Manager or Parameter Store, run the app as an ECS service behind a load balancer, and switch DNS once your team has tested it. The old host stays available until the new one has run cleanly.
ECS supports rolling updates and built-in blue/green deployments. With blue/green, the new version starts next to the old one, gets test traffic, then takes production traffic, and the old version keeps running for a bake time so you can switch back. Lifecycle hooks can run checks or pause the deploy at each stage.
Most teams with fewer than a few dozen services don’t. Kubernetes earns its keep when you already have people who run it, need tools from its ecosystem, or must run the same setup outside AWS. Otherwise ECS gives the same reliability with less to learn and patch.
Yes. Common patterns are a Zoho CRM webhook that triggers your container service to create a customer account, a queue worker that posts orders into Zoho Inventory or Zoho Books with retries, and a scheduled task that sends usage data to Zoho Analytics.
The first call is free. Each container project is then a fixed price agreed in a signed BRD that lists every service, pipeline and cutover date. Large cluster migrations may need a paid assessment first, which we quote up front. AWS bills you directly for the compute.
08How a container project starts
Four steps take you from “should we use Kubernetes?” to a written plan with a price. Moving one or two services can often be scoped on the call. A big cluster migration may need a paid assessment first, quoted before it starts.
The whole delivery path, from kickoff to handover, lives on one page. See how we work →
09Let’s talk
Book a free consultation with Elite Tech Global. We review your Zoho, AWS, Shopify or WordPress setup, show where AI / SI agents can save time, and agree the next step. If we work together, every requirement and a fixed price go into a signed BRD before the build starts.
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