Navigating the complex landscape of AWS container services can be overwhelming, but deploying containers using infrastructure as code, particularly with Pulumi, offers a streamlined and reproducible approach. The process involves using the AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for storing and managing container images, which provides a scalable and highly available solution. Developers can choose between AWS's Elastic Cloud Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for container orchestration, with ECS offering seamless integration with AWS services and EKS providing portability and fine-grained control through Kubernetes. Depending on workload requirements, containers can be run using AWS Fargate for smaller, scalable tasks or EC2 for larger, resource-intensive applications. Pulumi's framework allows the declaration of repositories, creation of ECS or EKS clusters, and configuration of services like load balancers, facilitating the deployment and management of containerized applications. The use of Pulumi's Crosswalk for AWS simplifies these tasks by integrating frequent practices and providing a cohesive interface for deploying infrastructure on AWS, thereby making it easier to build, store, and manage AWS containers.