AWS Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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2022-12-08T17:15:45Z
Dec 8, 2022
I would advise others that before they use this solution, they figure out what they want to achieve. There are many solutions available and you should use the most appropriate one. The main concept is, to use the most managed service you can get because that's the point of the cloud. So, try Lambda. If you can't do Lambda, use Fargate. If you can't Fargate, then use ECS. If you can't do ECS, then you can use ROSA or Kubernetes, or something like that. But if you end up with a virtual machine, then question yourself, "Why are you in the cloud in the first place?" This solution costs a bit more than ECS, but it's not terrible. It's four times less than ROSA, so it's good. It costs more than Lambda. So, if you have to use it and you can't use Lambda, then use Fargate. That's the concept. I think AWS Fargate is worth its money.
We would advise that this solution has a slightly-higher price point than others on the market. There is a free plan available for start-ups, but the free and lower range licensing models do not provide the full functionality.
A new compute engine that enables you to use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without having to manage the underlying instances. With Fargate, you don’t need to provision, configure, or scale virtual machines in your clusters to run containers. Fargate can be used with Amazon ECS today, with plans to support Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) in the future.
Fargate has flexible configuration options so you can closely match your application needs and...
We have obtained a significant discount on the pricing, so I wouldn't consider it as expensive. It's quite reasonable.
I would advise others that before they use this solution, they figure out what they want to achieve. There are many solutions available and you should use the most appropriate one. The main concept is, to use the most managed service you can get because that's the point of the cloud. So, try Lambda. If you can't do Lambda, use Fargate. If you can't Fargate, then use ECS. If you can't do ECS, then you can use ROSA or Kubernetes, or something like that. But if you end up with a virtual machine, then question yourself, "Why are you in the cloud in the first place?" This solution costs a bit more than ECS, but it's not terrible. It's four times less than ROSA, so it's good. It costs more than Lambda. So, if you have to use it and you can't use Lambda, then use Fargate. That's the concept. I think AWS Fargate is worth its money.
We would advise that this solution has a slightly-higher price point than others on the market. There is a free plan available for start-ups, but the free and lower range licensing models do not provide the full functionality.
I rate the price of AWS Fargate a four out of five.