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> Azure Container Instances (ACI) was released in July 2017 and was the first Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering by a major cloud provider. Amazon’s ECS la
by nucleardog 5y ago
> Azure Container Instances (ACI) was released in July 2017 and was the first Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering by a major cloud provider.
Amazon’s ECS launched in 2014. Is that not container hosting as a service?
- whoknew1122 5y agoIt looks like they're defining CaaS as the provider completely managing the underlying infrastructure. > "With ACI, customers can deploy containers to Azure without managing the underlying infrastructure" ECS was launched on 2014, but was implemented as an agent on an EC2 instance. AWS's completely managed container solution (Fargate) went GA in Nov 2017.