What service provides a platform for deploying and managing containerized applications?

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is specifically designed for deploying and managing containerized applications. ECS provides a highly scalable and efficient container management service that allows users to run and manage Docker containers on a cluster of virtual machines. It supports both serverless and traditional compute architectures, making it versatile for various deployment needs.

ECS integrates seamlessly with various AWS services, allowing for easy scaling, load balancing, and monitoring of containerized applications. It also supports task definitions and service configurations, enabling developers to specify how containers should be run, how much resource they should consume, and how they should be networked.

In contrast, while Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is a platform as a service (PaaS) that can manage applications in a particular programming language and may support containers, its primary focus is not on container management alone. Amazon EC2 is a more general infrastructure service that provides virtual machines but does not inherently offer the tools for container orchestration that ECS does. AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that runs code in response to events and is not designed for managing containerized applications directly.