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As a contractor, I come into places and use stuff for about 6 months then move onto the next place with a different setup.

The Amazon stuff is especially confusing, it seems they have reinvented just about everything with their own jargon, it really doesn't help.

AWS employee here on the ECS team. ECS on Fargate would be the closest thing to what you are asking for. Upload a container image, create a Fargate cluster, and launch a service on that cluster that runs your container.

Is this available today? I thought that's what I heard, but I'm not seeing anything in the AWS console.

It's currently available in the us-east-1 region, under the ECS service in the console. Create a new cluster and Fargate will be an option for launching and operating the cluster.

Thanks! I must have missed that bit about us-east-1 only

It's frustrating how hit or miss their service availability is in each region. I can understand other countries with different laws and regulations but they can't even get some services multi-region in the US.

Google Employee here

It's closest analog is Azure Container Instances or Google App Engine Flex.