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AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate
Formerly Amazon Fargate

Overview

What is AWS Fargate?

AWS 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…

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Recent Reviews

Fargate Rocks !

9 out of 10
August 30, 2022
Incentivized
In our company, we have been using Fargate a lot since the day it was made publicly available by AWS. This is due to the fact that we …
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Pricing

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Fargate Spot per GB

$0.00138679

Cloud
*per hour

per GB

$0.004445

Cloud
*per hour

Fargate Spot per vCPU

$0.01262932

Cloud
*per hour

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is AWS Fargate?

AWS Fargate Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

(9)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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August 30, 2022

Fargate Rocks !

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our company, we have been using Fargate a lot since the day it was made publicly available by AWS. This is due to the fact that we deploy every thing using Docker containers. ECS an EKS are good for this, but they are quite complicated to manage, and need a lot of low level maintenance to keep the servers up to date. Fargate on the other hand allow us to not worry about infrastructure. We only need to store the docker image somewhere (Docker hub or ECR), and Ship it to Fargate. Everything related to infrastructure is managed by AWS.
Pros and Cons
  • Managed Docker deployents
  • Very easy to scale up
  • Very good integration with EFS and ALBs
  • Debugging inside a container is quite tricky, but feasable
  • Sometimes it feels a bit opaque
  • Task definitions are still a hassle to create & update
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to deploy Docker containers, Amazon Fargate is a very good fit. It integrates very well with other AWS services like RDS, EFS, and Secrets manager. You can have a very robust application using those services. In case you have many containers to deploy, it is however more expensive that if you use other services like ECS or EKS, since they allow you to share the same infrastructure to deploy multiple containers.
AWS Fargate Feature Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (8)
71.25%
7.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
90%
9.0
Dynamic scaling
80%
8.0
Elastic load balancing
90%
9.0
Pre-configured templates
20%
2.0
Monitoring tools
60%
6.0
Operating system support
70%
7.0
Security controls
90%
9.0
Automation
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Much less effort is spent maintaining infrastructure
  • Time to market is much shorter once a reusable stack is terraformed
  • Quicker and easier deployments
Support Rating
8
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.
Usability
8
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 !
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8
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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