What is AWS Fargate?
AWS Fargate is a container-based compute service that enables businesses to run applications without the need to manage servers or clusters. It is a serverless compute engine that simplifies the deployment and management of containers on the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). With AWS Fargate, organizations can focus on building their applications without the overhead of infrastructure provisioning and management
Highlights
- Serverless compute for containers: AWS Fargate abstracts away the need to provision and manage servers, allowing developers to focus on building and running applications
- Support for Amazon ECS and EKS: AWS Fargate integrates with Amazon's container orchestration services, enabling businesses to deploy and manage containers on a serverless platform
- Application monitoring and logging: AWS Fargate provides built-in integrations with Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, allowing teams to monitor applications, gather metrics, and capture logs
- Windows container support: AWS Fargate enables the migration and execution of Windows containers without the need for rearchitecting or refactoring legacy applications.
Features
No clusters to manage
seamless scaling
Integrated with Amazon ECS and EKS