Learning about AWS Fargate
Yet another AWS service that is important to understand when it comes to container management is AWS Fargate.
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for container management that can be used with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate further simplifies the management of these two services and enables users to focus on application development rather than infrastructure management. With AWS Fargate, the provisioning of infrastructure and the management of servers is handled by AWS. The benefits of using AWS Fargate are as follows:
- Obviates the provisioning and management of servers
- Reduces costs by matching resources with workloads
- Enhances security with an application isolation architecture
Why isn't Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS by itself enough, and why would we use AWS Fargate to manage these workloads?
Well, AWS Fargate is not a container management service in itself; it is a method to launch container services.
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