AWS already offers tools to help enterprises migrate workloads from rival platforms and, for that matter, so do its top rivals Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC.

In addition to streamlining the process of deploying container apps on the cloud, the move represents another step in the rapid mainstreaming of the technology.

Amazon Web Services today announced a major feature, the EC2 Container Service, for launching, managing, and deleting containers to hold developers’ application code.

Docker is offering enterprises an easier on-ramp to using containers with a new consulting program aimed at taking a legacy application and migrating it to a container in five days.