AWS Fargate

CHOOSE IT WHEN

What job does it solve?

You want container packaging and orchestration but not server provisioning, patching, or cluster capacity management.

DO NOT CONFUSE IT WITH

Where does it stop?

You need host-level control, unsupported host features, or EC2 capacity economics and customization are decisive.

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Closely related services

• Amazon ECSAWS's container orchestrator for scheduling and operating container tasks and services.
• Amazon EKSA managed Kubernetes control plane for running Kubernetes workloads on AWS.
• Amazon EC2Resizable virtual machines in AWS with control over the operating system, instance type, storage, and networking.
• AWS LambdaRuns event-driven function code on managed infrastructure and scales executions within configured limits.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
• Lesson 15Choose where your code should run
• Lesson 16Match compute size and placement to the bottleneck
• Lesson 17Scale workers without overwhelming the database
• Lesson 40Compute service, purchasing, and edge/local economics

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