#1 most frequent
United States of America
56.8%2,499 installations of 4,398
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 run containers.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.6
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.1
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.5
Areas for Improvement
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 7.9
Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.1
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses AWS Fargate
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
6.3%279 installations of 4,398
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.9%217 installations of 4,398
Containers with snap of your fingers, well almost.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
easily and quickly deploying serverless compute application without needing to manage servers
Pros
- scalability
- ease of use
- agility to up or downsize
Cons
- can't think of any
Return on Investment
- easier to optimize our computer costs
- transition from server to serverless was easier once we decided to adopt Fargate
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Other Software Used
AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Datadog, GitKraken, PhpStorm, MySQL Workbench
Fargate Rocks !
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
- Managed Docker deployents
- Very easy to scale up
- Very good integration with EFS and ALBs
Cons
- Debugging inside a container is quite tricky, but feasable
- Sometimes it feels a bit opaque
- Task definitions are still a hassle to create & update
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