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Understand AWS Copilot

Understand AWS Copilot

- [Instructor] Hey, just a quick note before we completely wrap up with containers. If you've enjoyed what we've been able to do with ECS in this chapter, be sure to check out AWS Copilot, not to be confused with AI services of the same name. Copilot is Amazon's brand for the latest version of its ECS Command Line Interface. As you can see here, Copilot has its own unique landing page and documentation at aws.github.io, and looking at the usage message here on the terminal with its playful emojis, you can guess that Copilot is designed to give developers a friendly experience complete with step-by-step wizards that help developers rapidly standup ECS services. The key concepts in Copilot are the app, environment, and services. When you start a new build with Copilot in it, you'll be asked a series of questions that'll help you launch a scalable container infrastructure in minutes. One of the things I really like about Copilot is that it generates config files for you that manage…

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