Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy container images.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.