AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing Container Orchestration in 2026
Three months piloting EKS alongside ECS in production. What the upgrade overhead costs, what broke, and a four-question framework for the decision.
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Three months piloting EKS alongside ECS in production. What the upgrade overhead costs, what broke, and a four-question framework for the decision.
ECS rolling update defaults don't give you zero downtime. Here's the three-layer fix — graceful shutdown, ALB deregistration delay, and stopTimeout — that ended our deploy-time 502s.