The article outlines a comprehensive guide for hosting applications on the cloud using Amazon's Elastic Container Services (ECS) and Elastic Container Registries (ECR) while employing a multi-cloud strategy. It highlights the growing trend of developers opting for cloud services from major providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft to ensure applications can scale, be deployed faster, and meet robust security and automation requirements. The guide walks through five key steps: creating and pushing images to ECR, defining task definitions with required containers, creating an ECS cluster, running tasks within the cluster, and configuring services with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASG). ECS and ECR facilitate cloud automation by eliminating the need for self-managed clusters and configuration systems, offering two hosting approaches—AWS Fargate for serverless infrastructure and Amazon EC2 for more control. Additionally, it mentions that tools like Artifactory Cloud can be integrated for managing Docker registries and that AWS's other services, such as S3 and RDS, can further enhance applications' cloud-native capabilities.