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.

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Concept

ECS Cluster

Cluster: logical grouping of services or standard tasks

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

  • Task definition: definition of a service or task

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Pricing

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

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Trivia

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