&gt;All of this works without requiring that we install or operate our own container scheduler system like Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Core OS Fleet.<p>vs<p>&gt;We need to bring and configure our own instances, load balancers, logging, monitoring and Docker registry. We probably also want some tools to build Docker images, create Task Definitions, and to create and update Tasks Services.<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound like much of a win then. That sounds annoying. I just set up mesos&#x2F;dcos on AWS, and it sounds like the same amount of effort, only now I&#x27;ve got a platform-independent solution with great UI and cli, along with load balancers and routing. Is ECS worth the effort?