# Amazon Elastic Container Service Documentation

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you to more efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. It deeply integrates with the AWS environment to provide an easy-to-use solution for running container workloads in the cloud and on premises with advanced security features using Amazon ECS Anywhere.

## Amazon ECS

- [Developer Guide](/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/): Describes key concepts of Amazon ECS and provides instructions for using the features of Amazon ECS.
- [API Reference](/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/): Documents the Amazon ECS Query API.
- [Amazon ECS section of AWS CLI Reference](/cli/latest/reference/ecs/): Documents the Amazon ECS commands available in the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

## Best Practices

- [Architecture Center: Compute and HPC Best Practices](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/compute-hpc/?docec2_rl1): Browse AWS best practices that can help you leverage our compute services for your high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and hybrid cloud architectures.

## Workshops and Tutorials

- [Amazon ECS Workshop](https://ecsworkshop.com/): Interactive workshop that demonstrates the use of Amazon ECS features with other AWS services.
- [Tutorials](/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-tutorials.html): Provides tutorials for common Amazon ECS tasks.

## SDKs and toolkits

- [AWS CDK Documentation](/cdk/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS CDK is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code (IaC) and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation.
- [AWS SDK for C++](/sdk-for-cpp/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): Get started quickly with AWS using the AWS SDK for C++. The SDK is a modern, open-source C++ library that makes it easy to integrate your C++ application with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for Go](/sdk-for-go/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for Go provides APIs and utilities that developers can use to quickly integrate Go applications with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for Java](/sdk-for-java/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for Java provides APIs and utilities that developers can use to quickly integrate Java applications with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for JavaScript](/sdk-for-javascript/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for JavaScript enables developers to build libraries and applications that use Amazon ECS. You can use the JavaScript API in the browser and inside Node.js applications on the server.
- [AWS SDK for .NET](/sdk-for-net/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for .NET makes it easier for Windows developers to build .NET applications that tap into cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS infrastructure services.
- [AWS SDK for PHP](/sdk-for-php/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for PHP is an open source PHP library that developers can use to quickly integrate PHP applications with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)](/pythonsdk/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits/): The AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) provides an API that developers can use to quickly integrate Python applications with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for Ruby](/sdk-for-ruby/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for Ruby helps you to get started building applications.
- [AWS SDK for Rust](/sdk-for-rust/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for Rust provides easy-to-use APIs and utilities developers can use to quickly integrate Rust applications with Amazon ECS.
- [AWS SDK for Swift](/sdk-for-swift/?icmpid=docs_homepage_sdktoolkits): The AWS SDK for Swift provides support for integrating with Amazon ECS using the Swift language.

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## Related Links

- [AWS Glossary](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html)
- [Getting Started with AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/gettingstarted/)
- [AWS General Reference](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/Welcome.html)
- [AWS Training](https://aws.amazon.com/training/)
- [AWS Case Studies](https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/)
- [AWS Whitepapers](https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/)