Fargate

Updated: 2023-09-01

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About

Serverless version of ECS.

Serverless compute for containers.

AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers.

Deploy and manage your applications, not infrastructure. Fargate removes the operational overhead of scaling, patching, securing, and managing servers.

Compatible with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

AWS Fargate Flow

Alternatives

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Rancher
Azure Container Instances
Cloud Foundry
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes

Price

Current price

Use Cases

Web apps, APIs, and microservices
Run and scale container workloads
Support AI and ML training applications

Type: Containers

Same type services: Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Fargate

Questions

Q1

How AWS Fargate different from AWS ECS?

Explanation

In AWS ECS, you manage the infrastructure - you need to provision and configure the EC2 instances. While in AWS Fargate, you don’t provision or manage the infrastructure, you simply focus on launching Docker containers. You can think of it as the serverless version of AWS ECS.