AWS Fargate Reviews & Insights

easily and quickly deploying serverless compute application without needing to manage servers

If cost is an issue then it maybe better to "roll your own" otherwise, it's worth the extra cost for ease of deploying or updating serverless containers

In our company, we have been using Fargate a lot since the day it was made publicly available by AWS. This is due to the fact that we deploy every thing using Docker containers. ECS an EKS are good for this, but they are quite complicated to manage, and need a lot of low level maintenance to keep the servers up to date. Fargate on the other hand allow us to not worry about infrastructure. We only need to store the docker image somewhere (Docker hub or ECR), and Ship it to Fargate. Everything related to infrastructure is managed by AWS.

If you need to deploy Docker containers, Amazon Fargate is a very good fit. It integrates very well with other AWS services like RDS, EFS, and Secrets manager. You can have a very robust application using those services. In case you have many containers to deploy, it is however more expensive that if you use other services like ECS or EKS, since they allow you to share the same infrastructure to deploy multiple containers.