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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

Flexible image management Supports multiple image registries Rancher Desktop makes managing container images flexible because it works seamlessly with any type of image registry, not just Docker Hub.

That being said, AWS EKS remains the most commonly used container management platform, according to the CNCF Survey 2019, with GKE, Docker EE/CE, and AKS trailing just behind.

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.