Allow me to tell you a story, a story about a simple web-service that answers only one question: if a given number is prime.
The core problem is first solved with a Java class, which is then wrapped into a WebServlet and tested within a web server environment. The web server, however, does not get directly installed, but a docker image is created, containing all the mentioned components.
Eventually, the docker container is pushed into AWS ECR, a container registry, from which it is deployed and run. Using AWS ECS and Fargate, the simple service is finally made public and available to the world, scalable, all without having to manage servers or clusters.
Well, this is not about story telling of course, nor will I focus too much on Web-Services or Docker, still, as a starting point, we want to create a simple Web-Service, implemented in Java and made available via Tomcat. This web server will then be put into a docker container and stored at the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), a private, but fully-managed container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images... But that's just the the beginning, the focus will then be on AWS ECS and Fargate, a compute engine for Amazon ECS allowing you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.
All of this is done in code, i.e. not using the AWS Web UI. Of course all the code and shell scripts are demo-ed in this hands-on session .. and shared on github.
I expect that you'll leave the session with a good understand of what AWS ECR, AWS ECS, and Fargate are all about and with a motivation to try it out and run your own docker container in fargate, making it available to your users, customers, or the world.