AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (12 reviews)

4.2 out of 5

12 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. 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

We use the solution for source information. Vendors have some tactics on our cloud-native application platform, allowing them to use serverless compute for on-demand requests. With AWS, it will cost very little and might be more affordable for the client. We use this service to reduce costs and…

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Ashish Makasare

Trainee AWS Cloud Engineer at Cravita Technologies India Private Limited

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). We use it for running containers without managing the server or cluster of Amazon Web Services EC2 instances. It allows us to focus on applications instead…

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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 Oct 27, 2024

Valuable Features

"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."
"AWS Fargate automatically scales to meet demand, making it ideal for applications with variable workloads."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Challenges include higher costs for smaller clients, limited control over underlying infrastructure customization, and potential latencies during task startup."

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."

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