Amazon’s EC2 Container Service, a managed cloud service for running applications in containers that was first announced in November, is now generally available, the company said today. And not only that — Amazon has tacked on several new features for it.
The most significant component is a new scheduler for handling long-running applications and easily scaling containers up and down, Andy Jassy, head of the Amazon cloud, said today at the 2015 AWS Summit in San Francisco.
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The announcement builds on Amazon’s partnership with Docker, the startup that made containers a popular technology among developers and increasingly among operations people.
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