Amazon's container service running on-premises: a turnaround for a company that once scorned hybrid cloud Tim Anderson Tue 1 Jun 2021 // 18:45 UTC Share Copy ECS Anywhere, which enables on-premises or Edge container applications to be managed by AWS, is now generally available. The Elastic Container Service is the AWS alternative to Kubernetes for container orchestration. AWS also offers EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), but ECS is easier to use and tightly integrated to other AWS services like IAM (Identity and Access Management) and ELB (Elastic Load Balancer). Wheeled out at the company's re:Invent shindig last December, ECS Anywhere and allows customers to run containers on ECS on their own infrastructure.