# Deploying to Amazon EC2 Container Service
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**Important**  
The new **Publish to AWS** feature is designed to simplify how you publish .NET applications to AWS. You may be asked if you want to switch to this publishing experience after you choose **Publish Container to AWS**. For more information, see [Working with Publish to AWS in Visual Studio](publish-experience.md).

Amazon Elastic Container Service is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

To deploy applications on Amazon Elastic Container Service, your application components must be developed to run in a Docker container. A Docker container is a standardized unit of software development, containing everything that your software application needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, etc.

The Toolkit for Visual Studio provides a wizard that simplifies publishing applications through Amazon ECS. This wizard is described in the following sections.

For more information about Amazon ECS, go to the [Elastic Container Service documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/Welcome.html). It includes an overview of [Docker basics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/docker-basics.html) and [creating a cluster](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/create_cluster.html).

**Topics**
+ [Specify AWS Credentials](deployment-ecs-specify-credentials.md)
+ [Deploy an ASP.NET Core 2.0 App (Fargate) (Legacy)](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-fargate.md)
+ [Deploy an ASP.NET Core 2.0 App (EC2)](deployment-ecs-aspnetcore-ec2.md)