Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. AWS Fargate
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Score8.9 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems. | $0.01 per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis |
AWS Fargate | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | 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 run containers. | $0 *per hour |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.5 | 10.0 |
| Usability | 9.7 | 10.0 |
| Support Rating | 8.5 | 8.0 |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 8.0 |