AWS Containerization With a FinOps Mindset: Achieving Efficiency and Cost Reduction

This paper will examine how two leading AWS container services, AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), directly influence these KPIs based on organizational cloud experience within AWS, viewed through the lens of financial operations, or FinOps. While “lifting and shifting” workloads may provide a quick start to the cloud journey, it may not be the most cost-conscious option. Refactoring applications into microservices and utilizing cloud-native container services offers a significant opportunity for increased flexibility, scalability, maintainability, sustainable operational cost savings, and improved return on investment (ROI).