Fargate

• Serverless compute engine for containers in Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

• Eliminates the need to provision or manage underlying EC2 instances.

• Automatically scales compute resources based on container requirements.

• Supports running both stateless and stateful containerized applications.

• Integrates seamlessly with Amazon ECS task definitions and Kubernetes pods.

• Enables pay-as-you-go pricing based on requested vCPU and memory resources.

• Improves security by isolating tasks at the kernel level using AWS Firecracker microVMs.

• Supports networking modes including AWS VPC networking (awsvpc).

• Allows fine-grained IAM roles for tasks to securely access AWS resources.

• Simplifies container deployment by handling infrastructure provisioning and patching.

• Supports integration with AWS CloudWatch for logging and monitoring.

• Compatible with existing ECS and EKS tooling and APIs.

• Suitable for microservices architectures and batch jobs.

• Reduces operational overhead and improves developer productivity.

• Helps meet compliance and security requirements by minimizing attack surface.