Every engineer has their favorites. Not necessarily the most popular services or the ones that show up in every architecture diagram, just the ones that make your day better when you get to work with them. These are mine, right now, in no particular order.

AWS ECS/AWS Fargate

If you’ve ever managed EC2 instances just to run containers, you know the relief that comes with Fargate. No patching the underlying host. No capacity planning headaches. You define your task, point it at your container image, and let AWS handle the rest.