It's considerably cheaper than EKS. Looks like $75-80 a month vs I believe around $200 per EKS cluster.
Everyone's having EKS cost problems while I'm just sitting over here paying nothing for ECS control planes.
Everyone's having EKS cost problems while I'm just sitting over here paying nothing for ECS control planes.
Turned out to be irrelevant. Following their instructions I couldn't get EC2 runtime hosts to attach after a couple hours of fucking around (which is my standard for, 'is this mature enough to use'), while with ECS I hit one button and was up an running. Wasn't a hard choice when we started dockerizing (especially since I could simplify most jobs even further having dev use Fargate, albeit at a premium).
EKS struck me as a feature parity product, not something you'd actually use.