<ul><li>A container is a packaged environment including the application and dependencies, isolated from the host system, and created from a Docker image.</li><li>In AWS ECS, a Task represents one or more containers running together; for example, a Task Definition can specify resources for a container like a Spring Boot API.</li><li>In Kubernetes, the equivalent of a Task is a Pod, which is deployed using a Deployment that manages replicas, rolling updates, and health checks within the cluster.</li><li>When deploying Docker images to ECS, they become Tasks that can run on Fargate (serverless) or EC2 instances, with each component performing specific functions under different runtimes.</li></ul>

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