Comment by cddotdotslash

What I don't understand is why AWS squandered this opportunity. Given the popularity of Lambda, they clearly saw the market for completely managed services. They could have designed a platform where users upload containers and AWS runs them. No servers, no crazy settings, etc. Instead, they created this entire platform where you still have to run the entire EC2 infrastructure, there is no service discovery, etc. They essentially created a half baked Mesos or Kubernetes clone. I'm still shocked when I hear companies going "all in" on ECS.