Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate compete in the cloud computing services category. AWS Fargate has the upper hand due to its simplicity in container management and reduced operational overhead.
Features: Amazon EC2 offers customizable machine types, direct server access, and is noted for flexibility and scalability. AWS Fargate provides serverless container management, straightforward integration with AWS services, and ease of use without extensive configuration.
Room for Improvement: Amazon EC2 is complex to configure, requires significant management, and demands user expertise. AWS Fargate faces limitations in customization, resource allocation, and could be more flexible.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon EC2 benefits from robust documentation and community support but requires technical expertise. AWS Fargate allows easier container orchestration with seamless AWS integration, though support response could improve.
Pricing and ROI: Amazon EC2 has pricing tiers based on instance types but may have hidden management costs. AWS Fargate charges based on vCPU and memory usage, providing predictable costs and lower potential total costs due to less operational demand.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.
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 granular, per-second billing.
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