What’s Fargate?

• Deals with containers
• Serverless
• Fronted by an application load balancer
• Operated via ECS
• Like ec2 but you get a container rather than a server

Why use it?

• Don’t want to manage servers
• Great for on-prem to cloud migration
• Microservice architectures
• Batch processing / ML

How’s it different from beanstalk?

• Strictly focused on containers

How do you use it?

• Build container image
• Specify CPU and memory req’s
• Define networking / IAM policies
• Launch

What’s a fargate task?

• One or more docker containers deployed with certain settings
• Task definition .json document

Etc.

• You can add cloudwatch logging
• You can have Fargate clusters in public or private subnets
• Public load balancers accept web traffic and routes it to container
  • Thru ENI
• Private load balancer would only accept traffic from within the cluster