The AWS re:Invent keynote on Thursday kept in line with the week's theme of empowering developers building applications and services on the industry-leading cloud platform, with Amazon the latest ...

While you could always use Docker containers on Amazon Web Services, using Docker's tools to deploy containers to AWS was tricker. Until now.

At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.

But those who “just want to run applications” will be more effective choosing AWS’ serverless compute engine Fargate to remove the need for infrastructure management.

AWS CTO Werner Vogels outlines a new service that could scale Docker container technology. The move also speaks to the developer base.

The company will also create its own images for services such as AWS Deep Learning and AWS CloudWatch. To avoid any “outsized impact” like Docker has seen, Amazon will impose limits of its own.

Amazon has launched its free, Docker-friendly EC2 container management service, as well as compute-optimised EC2 instances built on customised Intel Haswell processors ...

AWS announced four new container innovations to help customers develop, deploy, and scale modern applications.

The container war has just begun! Definition – Container Technologies and Orchestration Engines If you do not live behind the moon you have probably heard of Docker and all the hype around it.

It’s worth noting that Docker also recently engaged in a strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate the Docker developer experience with Azure’s Container Instances.