The first time I heard&#x2F;read about ECS, I thought it&#x27;s going to be like Lambda for containers.<p>Amazon took the managing instances, managing containers, selected the hardest to comprehend parts and wrapped with with a cumbersome JSON definition.<p>Marathon takes a much simpler approach, but it lacks the control over the underlying cluster.<p>ECS should be a combination of the marathon with control over the underlying cluster. I deploy a container and I don&#x27;t want to worry about anything else after that.<p>For now, I&#x27;d seriously focus on HTTP facing services. With simple health checks rules for scaling.