Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for docker containers. AWS owns and manages the infrastructure.

• Requires use of ECS or EKS.

• Can use both Linux and Windos containers.

With ECS Fargate you can set:

• Desired count (baseline number of tasks)

• Minimum count (floor)

• Maximum count (ceiling)

Difference between EC2 and Fargate are:

• EC2:

  • You are responsible for underlying operating system

  • EC2 pricing model

  • Long-running containers

  • Multiple containers can share the same host

  • Capable of mounting EFS file systems for persistent, shared, storage.

• Fargate:

  • No operating system access

  • Pay based on resources allocated and time ran

  • Short-running tasks

  • Isolated environments per containers

  • Capable of mounting EFS file systems for persistent, shared, storage.