[mugsie]

Yeah, that doesn't really answer the question at all... Do you just have a pile of cloudformation on your desktop? point and click? tf? And then none of the actual questions like

> How do you handle application lifecycle concerns like database backup/restore, migrations/upgrades?

were even touched.

[liveoneggs]

There is no difference between cloudformation, clicking, terraform, boto, awscli, pulumi, or whatever else. The platform at the other end of those tools is still ECS.

Backing up databases isn't the job of the container-running platform (ECS), especially not in AWS-world where databases are managed with RDS.

The rest of the questions were "how do I run containers on ecs?" in various forms. The answers to all of them is "by asking ecs to run containers in various forms."