Fargate

serverless container platform

Overview

  • No EC2 instance to manage (not like ECS). No nodes managed (not like EKS).

  • Auto scaling. To scale, just create new task.

  • Fargate + EFS = serverless

  • Run containerized applications (e.g., Docker images).

  • Very scalable but can require manual orchestration.


Concept

Cluster: logical grouping of services or standard tasks

  • Namespaces: logical grouping of container or task definition within a cluster.


Pricing

Charges are based on the resources assigned to the container (RAM, CPU, etc.) and how long it runs for.


Trivia

  • Fargate tasks are given a minimum of 20 GiB of free ephemeral storage.

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