Five production ECS case studies published. Nine applications moved off Heroku with zero production outages. ECS Fargate and EC2 launch types, ISO-hardened where compliance demands it. AWS Advanced Tier Partner, founder-led on every engagement.
The ECS stack we ship on.
Most engagements start in one of these four lanes and expand over time. All of it is production work — task definitions, deployment controllers, scaling policies — not slideware. Broader platform needs are covered under our AWS DevOps services.
Greenfield container platforms on ECS Fargate: multi-AZ services behind an ALB, auto-scaling on real signals (not CPU guesswork), blue-green or rolling deployments, ECR with lifecycle policies, and Terraform for the whole stack. We built exactly this for a hospitality SaaS backend — automated CI/CD, 99.95% uptime, and roughly 25% lower infrastructure cost than the setup it replaced.
From Heroku, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, plain EC2, or another cloud. We containerise what needs containerising, move the data layer with a rehearsed cutover, rebuild CI/CD for container deploys, and run old and new in parallel until the numbers prove the switch. Nine applications off Heroku on this playbook, zero production outages. See Heroku to ECS, DigitalOcean to AWS, or the broader migration service.
ECS configured for auditors, not just for uptime: AWS WAF in front, GuardDuty and AWS Config watching everything, least-privilege task roles, secrets out of environment variables and into Secrets Manager, Multi-AZ redundancy, and CI/CD with approval gates. Our published ISO hardening engagement ran on the ECS EC2 launch type for a client with instance-level control requirements.
Ongoing ECS operations on a monthly retainer: right-sizing task definitions, scheduled scaling for dev environments, Fargate Spot where it is safe, Savings Plans where EC2 wins, ECR cleanup (one engagement removed 200+ stale images and enabled Auto Scaling for a financial compliance platform). Cost work runs under our AWS cost optimization practice — 20–35% reductions are typical on unoptimised accounts.
We deliver both ECS and EKS under our DevOps practice, so we have no incentive to steer you either way. Here is how we actually advise clients.
Three paths we have run in production, each with a rehearsed cutover and a rollback point. All fall under our wider AWS migration service.
Dynos become Fargate tasks, Heroku Postgres becomes Aurora, git-push deploys become GitHub Actions with OIDC. Nine applications migrated on this exact playbook with zero production outages, and cost cuts of up to 60% versus equivalent Heroku spend.
We moved a containerised production application from DigitalOcean Kubernetes to Amazon ECS on the EC2 launch type — better scalability, lower operational overhead, and a cost-optimised footprint on AWS. The workloads were already containers; the win was removing the cluster-management burden.
Applications running on hand-managed EC2 instances or on-prem VMs get containerised incrementally: Dockerfiles and task definitions first, then a service at a time behind the same load balancer. No big-bang rewrite — the parallel run proves each move before traffic shifts.
Not logos on a slide — full write-ups with architecture decisions, launch types, and the numbers. Every one is ECS in production.
Production-grade backend for a hospitality SaaS platform: automated CI/CD, Multi-AZ Fargate services, and a leaner bill than the infrastructure it replaced.
ISO-hardened containerised architecture on the ECS EC2 launch type: AWS WAF, GuardDuty, AWS Config, audited CI/CD pipelines, and Multi-AZ redundancy for production workloads.
Containerised application moved from DigitalOcean Kubernetes to Amazon ECS (EC2) — improved scalability, reduced operational overhead, cost-optimised AWS footprint.
Nine applications migrated from Heroku to ECS with automated CI/CD, auto-scaling, and improved security controls — without a single production outage during cutover.
ECS-based redesign of development environments with scheduled scaling and resource consolidation — a 20–35% cut in AWS cost without slowing the engineering team down.
Multi-region AWS cleanup for a financial compliance platform: 200+ stale container images removed, ECS Auto Scaling enabled, ECR lifecycle policies configured.
AWS covers ECS under its own ISO 27001, SOC 1/2/3, and PCI DSS attestations — but the auditor is looking at your configuration layer: task roles, network paths, secrets handling, logging, and change control. That layer is what we harden.
We have delivered it in production — see the ISO hardening on ECS case study — and we hold ISO 27001:2022 ourselves, so we build to the standard we operate under. For teams heading into ISO 27001 or SOC 2 audits, the ECS work slots into the wider evidence trail your auditor expects.
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★ AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner · ISO 27001:2022 · 5 Production ECS Case Studies
