Why AWS is retiring Elastic Beanstalk with multi container support?

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I was looking at using Elastic Beanstalk with Multicontainer support, although, it seems that AWS is scheduling the retirement of this platform / functionality.

Here is the documentation for supported platform for Elastic Beanstalk: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platforms-supported.html

I used the Docker version 64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.4.4 running Docker and that version does not support using Dockerrun.aws.json version 2 with multi containers support.

So then I came across this documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platforms-retiring.html#platforms-retiring.mcdocker

Multi containers support is marked as retiring platform, I was wondering why basically? Is there a version coming soon or Elastic Beanstalk would just stop doing multi containers support?

Thanks a lot!

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The Multicontainer Docker (Amazon Linux AMI) was based on ECS to support muliti-container docker. But since regular Docker environment now supports docker-compose you can multi-containers without ECS:

Docker Compose features. This platform will allow you to leverage the features provided by the Docker Compose tool to define and run multiple containers. You can include the docker-compose.yml file to deploy to Elastic Beanstalk.

Docker Compose makes is much easier to use multi-containers on EB, thus support for ECS seems redundant.

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