Planning for serverless Windows containers
When planning for serverless Windows containers with AWS Fargate, we need to understand how Fargate behaves with Windows, such as regarding task start-up, pull time, and limitations; these will define whether Fargate Windows-based tasks are a go or no-go solution for you. So, let’s dive deep into each aspect of it.
Fargate Windows-based task start-up time
To understand the Fargate Windows-based task start-up time, we need to understand Windows System Preparation (Sysprep) and AWS Windows faster launching.
Sysprep is a process on Windows that removes PC-specific information from the registry, such as the security identifier (SID). The SID uniquely identifies any entity in a Windows-based network, including users, groups, computer accounts, and more. The process of removing these pieces of information is called generalizing, and it is used during Windows OS image creation.
When planning to deploy Windows Server at scale, companies...
