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    AWS Fargate

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

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    AWS Fargate
    Editions & Modules
    Fargate Spot per GB
    $0.00138679
    *per hour
    per GB
    $0.004445
    *per hour
    Fargate Spot per vCPU
    $0.01262932
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    per vCPU
    $0.04048
    *per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Fargate
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*based on US East rates. Price varies region to region.
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    AWS Fargate
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    Chose AWS Fargate
    AWS Fargate offers more infrastructure control and deeper AWS integration than Render, DigitalOcean App Platform, or Google Cloud Run. Render and DigitalOcean are simpler, while Cloud Run excels at bursty web services. Fargate is a strong choice for microservices, background …
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    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    AWS Fargate
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS Fargate
    Feature
    AWS Fargate
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.63 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.33 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.33 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.03 Ratings
    Monitoring tools7.83 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images6.62 Ratings
    Operating system support6.63 Ratings
    Security controls8.03 Ratings
    Automation6.13 Ratings
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    AWS Fargate
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    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS Fargate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Fargate is well suited for web APIs, microservices, background jobs, and applications with changing traffic. It is useful when teams want to run containers without managing servers. It is less appropriate for workloads that run constantly at large scale, need special hardware, require deep server control, or depend on very low costs and highly customized networking or storage requirements.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • scalability
    • ease of use
    • agility to up or downsize
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Offers less control over the underlying server.
    • Storage options are more limited than EC2.
    • Large numbers of tasks may hit launch-rate limits.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It's a very practical service to use. If you need to deploy any application with a Database, disk storage, you're pretty much set.
    Everything around that can be taken care of using other AWS services. Like secrets manager, certificate manager, RDS ...
    And the CI/CD part is also very easy to setup, you only need on AWS CLI command to trigger a deployment, and done !
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS provides different support tiers. They are usually very reactive and are able to help solve the issues very quickly.
    As for everything, the higher the support tier you get, the better and faster support you get.
    If you're also a part of big company, you probably have solution architects at your disposal to help you with any inqueries.
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    Amazon AWS
    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    Pricing and billing of AWS Fargate is loosely tied to your exisiting AWS billing. You're unlikely to only use Fargate in your AWS subscription, so you get billed for everything alltoghter.
    Fargate is naturally a bit more expensive that usuel docker services, but with careful planning and architecturing, you can have a very manageable cost.
    You can also rely on Saving plans to reduce your bill.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Has made seasonal apps/tools cheap to run/maintain.
    • Pay for what you use helps compare many A/B tests.
    • No server management means faster deploys.
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