AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (9 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

9 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 8.8 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 70% 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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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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Shinto Paul

Dev manager at London Stock Exchange PLC

We have encountered some issues recently. For example, AWS released a new feature called a better quarter, which greatly helped us. Before that, we faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload. After the release of the new feature, we were able to scale vertically by utilizing sixteen CPU units and a large memory capacity. We also experienced issues with scaling in, as it would abruptly terminate the task. However, AWS introduced a feature called task protection that has been helpful in resolving this issue. Nevertheless, during this period, we were exploring a move to Spark due to the challenges we encountered, which is why I rated the overall product as an eight out of ten.

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Dave-Smith

Assistant Director at a government with 10,001+ employees

AWS Fargate is an Amazon-managed service for Kubernetes. AWS Fargate is used for anything that's containerized and they are all Kubernetes-oriented. It's a nice out-of-the-box pre-packaged solution for deploying. It has good integration with EKS and container registry. It makes it an easy way to…

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AWS Fargate mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of AWS Fargate in the Compute Service category stands at 18.6%, up from 14.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Jun 26, 2024

Valuable Features

"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."
"AWS Fargate is an easy-to-use tool to simplify setup. You only pay for the resources you use. If you need to quickly create, delete, or scale applications without managing resources like EC2 instances, Fargate is the best service to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling process."

Room for Improvement

"Service computing is not as straightforward compared to other computing services. It requires more effort to use effectively."
"If there are any options to manage containers, that would be good. That relates more to the cost point.For example, over the next three months, I'll be making a comparison between solutions like CAST AI and other software-as-a-service platforms that offer Kubernetes management with an emphasis on cost reduction."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."

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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