Empire

Empire is a control layer on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) that provides a Heroku-like workflow. It conforms to a subset of the Heroku Platform API, which means you can use the same tools and processes that you use with Heroku, but with all the power of EC2 and Docker. Empire is targeted at small to medium-sized startups that are running a large number of microservices and need more flexibility than what Heroku provides. You can read the original blog post about why we built Empire on the Remind engineering blog. Empire aims to make it trivially easy to deploy a container-based microservices architecture, without all of the complexities of managing systems like Mesos or Kubernetes. ECS takes care of much of that work, but Empire attempts to enhance the interface to ECS for deploying and maintaining applications, allowing you to deploy Docker images.