Convox is working on making it easier to spin up an ECS cluster. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.convox.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.convox.com&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;ve been playing with both and conceptually they&#x27;re very similar. ECS is a little less sophisticated and extensible than Kubernetes, but that&#x27;s by design since it only works with AWS services. For example, ECS uses ELB to abstract services whereas Kubernetes has its own service load balancer and service replication mechanism.