This course introduces you to container technologies and how they can be used to modernize your applications, as well as exploring how different AWS services can be used to manage and orchestrate those containers.
Container technologies have existed for years, and are still gaining popularity. Two of the most prevalent options are Docker and Kubernetes - each with its own distinct set of features. Regardless of which technology you choose, one of the biggest challenges with containers is their orchestration. Unlike traditional, monolithic applications where you can only scale at a macro level - an executable, for example - containerized applications scale at the container level. When coupled with a microservices approach, each container can contain the code necessary to execute a single task or function. While this provides a number of benefits, a single application can consist of hundreds of containerized microservices. How do you handle starting, stopping, scaling out and scaling in all of these containers?
AWS offers a number of services that help with container orchestration, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Lightsail, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Throughout this course, expert instructors will dive deep into these services as well as general container technologies and capabilities.
This course uses a combination of video-based lectures, delivered by AWS technical trainers, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises to enable you to deploy and manage a containerized application.
Status: Serverless Computing
Serverless Computing
Status: Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Beginner·Course·12 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Sep 1, 2022
Excellent course to get into touch with Containerized applications.
4.0
·Reviewed Dec 17, 2022
It was so easy to pass this course. Thank you for the certificate. Some videos were informative.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 23, 2023
Great content! Very dense with information, but still well and clearly presented. A very good introduction into containerized applications on AWS.
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 1, 2022
It' really a nice course and give intuitive into the containerized applications
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 12, 2023
I'd not consider this introductory. If you have ample exposure to the AWS ecosystem, then this is a great tutorial to learning docker and ECS. The Kubernetes introduction with EKS was less useful.
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 9, 2022
For a very good start towards AWS Containers learning and understanding!
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 13, 2023
Very good material with fantastic instructors, great content, and real-life lab scenarios!
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 1, 2023
A good course with good mentors for beginners to learn the basics of "Containers and AWS services like ECS and EKS".
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 1, 2022
A must learn course for all those folks who are amateur with container services and applications in AWS
4.0
·Reviewed Jun 20, 2023
I would like to see more workshops in courses such as this, and more simple challenge exercises. The teachers and the instructions were very thorough for a beginner level course.
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Pranay
1.0
·Reviewed Jun 28, 2022
Incomplete instructions in videos. The instructor doesn't explain huge lines of code and just skips through them by just reading them. They assume we know everything and just read the code. Skip explaining lots of parts. Makes this course very confusing. This has to be remade by putting more thought into it.
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Drew
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 14, 2024
Great course with great instructors. Be aware that the labs use Cloud9, which is no longer supported for new AWS users. You have to use CloudShell or another AWS IDE. It takes work to translate the lab instructions to work with CloudShell (I used MS CoPilot to help).
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José
1.0
·Reviewed Jan 3, 2025
Outdated content, impossible to follow the exercies without experience.
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Andre
5.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2023
I think the Containerized Applications on AWS course is designed to help individuals design and build secure, reliable and scalable AWS-based applications. I feel rather honored and thank AWS Masters for arranging for me to join this project. I wish to thank all of you for your belief in my abilities and in my IT skills.
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Edgar
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 1, 2023
I learnt what I needed to learn!
I loved the length, material, pace, instructors, and visuals.
If you want to finally understand the core (according to my personal point of view) of Amazon Web Services, you definitely do this course for sure.
Thanks to Coursera and Amazon for this course.
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GIACOMO
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 8, 2022
Great course very well done. Useful to understand more of AWS services that manage containers, like ECS, EKS, Lambda, AppRunner and more. The exercises may use some AWS credit, but are very useful and very well written. I reccomend this course
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Juan
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 21, 2024
AWS platform cover several topics about cloud computing, but in this course the applications and kubernetes are remarkably essential. Thank you so much.
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Ferenc
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 24, 2023
Great content! Very dense with information, but still well and clearly presented. A very good introduction into containerized applications on AWS.
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Polavarapu
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 2, 2023
A good course with good mentors for beginners to learn the basics of "Containers and AWS services like ECS and EKS".
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Rohan
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 2, 2022
A must learn course for all those folks who are amateur with container services and applications in AWS
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Kenney
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 5, 2022
Thank you instructors for share your knowledge on containers, kubernetes and others services da aws.
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Jeremy
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 14, 2023
Very good material with fantastic instructors, great content, and real-life lab scenarios!
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ravi
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 2, 2022
It' really a nice course and give intuitive into the containerized applications
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S
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 10, 2022
For a very good start towards AWS Containers learning and understanding!
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Dhruv
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 29, 2025
Superb in depth knowledge and just the reading resources that I wanted
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Siumen
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 2, 2022
Excellent course to get into touch with Containerized applications.
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Mery
5.0
·Reviewed May 12, 2023
Good course to introduce into the AWS containerization.