As part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon had traditionally offered its own in-house container deployment system -- Elastic Container Service (ECS). However, a growing number of organizations are using Kubernetes to manage their containers, not ECS.

‘Docker vs Kubernetes’ is Misleading We need to start with the fact that the comparison, ‘Docker vs. Kubernetes’ is actually a little bit misleading. Docker isn’t a competitor to Kubernetes per se; rather, Docker is the container upon which Kubernetes runs on.