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Introduction to Containers on AWS - ECS, EKS, and Fargate (Udemy.com)

A hands-on introductory crash course into the configuration and optimization of AWS ECS, EKS, and Fargate for beginners

Created by: Rick Crisci

Last updated May 2026

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What you will learn

  • Understand basic container concepts and how they fit into AWS ECS and Fargate
  • Create ECS Clusters using either EC2 instances or Fargate resources
  • Use Downloadable PDF Study Guides to Review Each Lesson
  • Manage, troubleshoot, optimize, and monitor ECS services
  • Frequent Quizzes to Reinforce Your Learning
  • Associate an Application Load Balancer with an ECS service

How it compares

Against the other 848 rated Udemy courses in IT Certifications on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 63% of them
  • Reviews1,187#256 of 849 by number of reviews
  • Length4.2 hoursshorter than 72% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2026more recently than 64% of them

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Course Description

"Easy to understand the flow of the information. Good for a beginner or more advanced learner."  -Sarah

"Really clear and straight to the point. I was able to quickly learn how to deploy two containers, verify they are working and clearly understand how it all works!" -Jack


This course now includes many downloadable study guide PDF files and downloadable slides!

Are you brand new to AWS ECS, Fargate, or EKS? Have you found that many training resources are filled with complex jargon that makes it difficult to grasp the basics? If you’re looking for a clear, fast, and beginner-friendly way to understand AWS container services, this course is for you.

I’ve taught hundreds of thousands of students across multiple platforms, and I believe anyone new to AWS container services will benefit from this course. Most lessons are 5–10 minutes long, and in just a couple of hours, you'll gain confidence in using ECS, Fargate, and EKS.

You’ll learn how ECS and EKS work, how they are billed, and how to deploy and manage containers on AWS with real-world demos and walkthroughs.

You can begin this course now, and in two short hours you will have a strong understanding of ECS. So don't wait - give this course a try now and learn how to manage ECS and Fargate!

Lessons include:

  • Introduction to Microservices and Containers

  • Introduction to ECS, EKS, and Fargate

  • EC2 Container Hosts vs. Fargate

  • Configure a VPC for ECS using CloudFormation

  • Create an ECS cluster, launch tasks and services, and test failures

  • Modify an ECS cluster

  • Create a web server running in ECS

  • Distribute traffic across multiple containers using an Application Load Balancer (ALB)

  • Configure and run containers on Fargate

  • Install and Use AWS CLI, kubectl, and eksctl

  • Deploy a Cluster using EKS Auto Mode

  • Launch and Manage Sample Workloads in EKS

  • Deploy Load-Balanced and Stateful Applications in EKS

  • Understand the Difference Between EKS Auto Mode vs. Fargate

  • Deploy an EKS Cluster using Fargate Profiles

Join now and gain practical hands-on experience with both ECS and EKS—two of the most powerful container orchestration platforms on AWS!

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Instructor Details

Rick Crisci

I am the owner of TrainerTests and have delivered thousands of hours of official live training to my students, and I love teaching people new skills.

I provide video training unlike any other organization. I believe in using high quality illustrations and animations to simplify complex concepts. In my courses you will get the technical depth that you need, with a focus on making sure that you completely understand the underlying concepts.

Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, I always enjoy making new contacts with my students!

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Reviews

4.6

1,187 ratings on Udemy

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By Oliver Mendez on 3/16/2026

The course was a good match for what I was looking for. The instructor kept stuck to the topic with very clear explanations of the material covered. The material was exactly what I was looking for, an introduction to AWS EKS that was short, informative and straight to the point. Thank You

By SrinivasaRao Gurram on 10/15/2025

A few takeaways are that as feedback, you can do the following: 1. Give a link for all the slides, which will help before the interview 2. Some of the topics that I am aware of, I want to do change the speed at which I can run say I want 1.x speed ot 1.1, 1,2,1,3x speed. so of the topics that I want to attend slowly, I want to give with 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 etc. where option is give with a bar where I can move the speed of choice with predefined speeds, which will help to optimize the learning speed 3. summary of notes 4. code to download and experiment on aws platform 5. commands that are to be executed.

By Noel Lewis on 7/30/2025

Was a very good class, except that there are a million things to keep track of: Security groups, Tasks, Services, Load Bal, etc... IN a real-world env., anything can go wrong anywhere and it makes it difficult to debug.

By Courtney Rosenthal on 5/17/2025

It was a clear explanation of a pretty complex topic, that hits a number of AWS services. I had a specific need (launching short lived containers to do various tasks) that wasn't covered, but I suspect the one use case discussed in detail (launching an array of web servers) is what most people want. Nonetheless, I found this course useful (definite value for the time required to complete) and would take other courses from this instructor.

By Deep Chakraborty on 5/9/2025

Great intro to ECS. I enjoyed the course and learned a lot about ECS. It was very easy to follow and really pleased that I stumbled upon this course. I have taken 1 star away, as I expected to use at least a docker app pulled from ECR as a task and do some deployments using different deployment types which is missing.

By Anonymized User on 5/6/2025

This is providing a simulation of using AWS. Discussions about network bindings, Security groups and testing in Chrome Incognito mode make this very value added for someone trying to get their head around this whole process.

By peerzada burhan on 2/23/2025

Pretty much clears up everything. If you get confused over some terms just use claude or chatgpt to search them up, understand the concept and come back. Do the whole course twice to understand it better. Do these things and you will be get the whole picture.

By Sergio Deras Arreola on 2/19/2025

Great course if you need to understand what's behind ECS, it explains all the pieces and it is valuable content if you are going to use EC2 as your deployment target, but the title has "Fargate" and it explains the concept and provides a demo at the end, I was expecting more intermediate/advanced concepts but it is OK to get beginner experience with Fargate technology.

By Jack Durham on 1/26/2025

Really clear and straight to the point. I was able to quickly learn how to deploy two containers, verify they are working and clearly understand how it all works!

By Laura Kavanaugh on 5/12/2024

Great intro, not too much and not too little. A very good way to get started. Explainations are clear. The diagrams of the configurations are very helpful. Other classes go into too much detail too fast and it is easy to get lost. I'm just begining to learn about ECS.

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