Comment by jacurtis
2 years ago
I've been running ECS for about 5 years now. It has come a long way from a "lightweight" orchestration tool into something thats actually pretty impressive. The recent new changes to the GUI are also helpful for people that don't have a ton of experience with orchestration.
We have moved off of it though, you can eventually need more features than it provides. Of course that journey always ends up in Kubernetes land, so you eventually will find your way back there.
Logging to Cloudwatch from kubernetes is good for one thing... audit logs. Cloudwatch in general is a shit product compared to even open source alternatives. For logging you really need to look at Fluentd or Kibana or DataDog or something along those lines. Trying to use Cloudwatch for logs is only going to end in sadness and pain.
GKE is a much better product to me still than EKS but at least in the last two years or so EKS has become a usable product. Back in like 2018 though? Hell no, avoid avoid avoid.