AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.2 (13 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

13 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is AWS Fargate?

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.

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AWS Fargate is the #3 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Fargate an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 13 most recent AWS Fargate reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.5. (Among the highest in the category). AWS Fargate is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: AWS Fargate vs Apache Spark. AWS Fargate is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 28% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Subrata Mukherjee

Senior Technical Architect; Head of Platform at Blenheim Chalcot IT Services India

We are a venture builder company, and if we select AWS for our product. Our design is based on a serverless architecture model. ECS Fargate is the most convenient way in terms of scalability, integration, and cost control Thanks to the serverless model and easy integration features, a few…

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Cuneyt-Gurses

Cloud architect at DTech Cloud

By using a server's compute resources, one can observe the resource metrics. With AWS, one can determine when servers will be used based on CloudWatch results. For example, CloudWatch informs the application and service platform when the hit ratio has reached the threshold value. Then the service decides that some nodes should be launched in AWS. For instance, when hosting a media application, the hit ratio can grow when needed and shrink when needed. This allows us to satisfy the customer at the utmost level. For cloud-native microservices applications on AWS, this reduces errors.

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Ashish Makasare

Trainee AWS Cloud Engineer at Cravita Technologies India Private Limited

I would like to see enhanced faster application scaling and better integration with the elastic file system to unify storage volumes and improve the launch time of instances. It requires enhancements to orchestrate containers more effectively and handle resource limits like CPU and memory constraints, particularly when load balancing, as it affects the auto-scaling configurations.

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AWS Fargate mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of AWS Fargate in the Compute Service category stands at 16.7%, up from 15.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Nov 6, 2024

Valuable Features

"Fargate's integration with other AWS services is really good."
"It allows for focusing on applications instead of managing infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ability to run on demand without the constant run time of basic resources."

Room for Improvement

"Sometimes, Fargate can be really hard to configure."
"I would like to see enhanced faster application scaling and better integration with the elastic file system to unify storage volumes and improve the launch time of instances."
"AWS Fargate needs improvement in terms of setup complexity."

ROI

Pricing

"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."