The same is true of ECS, but with a much simpler API, much tighter integration with load balancers, a no-charge control plane, and not having to upgrade every cluster every 3-6 months.
I’ve had 2 services running flawlessly in ecs for over a year (with load balancing) without having to touch them. Took me all of 15m to set them up. It’s quite good.
Fargate is really nice too—it takes the benefits of ECS even further to the point that the underlying EC2 instances are abstracted away almost completely.
Fargate with auto-scaling plus Aurora for the DB is pretty great in terms of a nearly zero-maintenance setup that can handle just about any type of service up to massive scale.
Unfortunately getting all the networking and IAM stuff right is still pretty thorny if you want to do things the correct way and not just run it all in public subnets. And the baseline costs are significantly higher than a paas.
