AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (14 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

14 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.

Get the AWS Fargate Buyer's Guide and find out what your peers are saying about AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Lambda and more!

AWS Fargate is the #3 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Fargate an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 14 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 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 26% of all views.

Helped 825,609 peers since 2012

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…

Read full review

FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

There is a tool named Compose that helps in converting the Docker Compose file into a Kubernetes file. For ECS and Fargate, AWS reads a Dockerfile and helps with conversion. However, I am uncertain if it's ready for deployment after conversion. Despite this, manual configurations are very easy, and we manage to get by the process.

Read full review

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.

Read full review

AWS Fargate mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of AWS Fargate in the Compute Service category stands at 15.7%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Compute Service

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	Jan 5, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 5, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs AWS Lambda	Jan 5, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling	Jan 5, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs Apache Spark	Jan 5, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.4%	90%	64 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.2	20.4%	93%	79 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"Fargate is beneficial for hosting our solutions and providing workflow management, creating legal documents, and delivering business intelligence."
"Fargate's integration with other AWS services is really good."
"It allows for focusing on applications instead of managing infrastructure."

Room for Improvement

"There is a tool named Compose that helps in converting the Docker Compose file into a Kubernetes file. For ECS and Fargate, AWS reads a Dockerfile and helps with conversion. However, I am uncertain if it's ready for deployment after conversion."
"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."

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."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

Download our AWS Fargate Buyer's Guide for additional reliable information.