-> ECS is built on top of AWS proprietary container run time while locking you into AWS
LocalOps provisions EKS clusters to deploy your applications, which are AWS managed Kubernetes clusters that are powered by open & industry standard Kubernetes technology.
-> ECS expects you to have Docker images in ECR to make deployments
While LocalOps can setup the docker-build stages and work just with Dockerfiles in your git repo.
-> ECS compute is powered by Fargate (more expensive)
LocalOps provisions Managed Node Groups in the EKS clusters, that are powered by EC2. EC2 is least 33% more cheaper than Fargate for most configurations.
-> ECS doesn't provide out of the box continuous deployments in its clusters. Must be setup separately using AWS Code deploy or using IaC tools like Terraform
LocalOps has built-in automation to setup git based continuous deployments in every environment it creates.
-> ECS doesn’t have “environment” abstraction as defined by 12factor.net specification until you automate and define specific resources using IaC tools
LocalOps comes with in-built environment abstraction that can group together cloud resources - network, compute instances, volumes etc., and handle them all as one unit.
-> ECS needs you to buy & manually set up observability tools such as CloudWatch, DataDog, NewRelic on each ECS cluster to see logs, metrics and traces of your applications.
LocalOps has built-in observability in each app environment using open source Prometheus/Grafana stack.
You can stop paying for 3rd party observability tools as everything is pre-configured in LocalOps using open source monitoring tools.
-> ECS clusters will not enforce consistency amongst different clusters until you make it that way via IaC tools like Terraform
LocalOps ensures consistency amongst all app environments it provisions and you can spin up 5, 10, 15 identical environments across any number of cloud accounts, regions, environments and customers.
-> ECS locks you into AWS
LocalOps frees you to deploy app environments powered by open Kubernetes standard across AWS, GCP and Azure and ensures same developer experience across all of them.