Zero to Production Container in Seconds: Amazon ECS Express Mode
Overview There is a recurring pattern I keep seeing with side projects and small internal tools. The application is fine. The container is fine. The AWS part is what slows everything down. Not because ECS is bad. Quite the opposite: plain ECS gives you a lot of control. But that control comes with a lot of setup. Subnets, load balancer, listener rules, security groups, scaling policies, logging, IAM roles, health checks, certificates. For a production platform team this is normal life. For one container and one weekend project, it is a lot. ...