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The author is on point with regards to the overall complexity of the setup. I wanted to add that we switched from ECS without Fargate (managing our own EC2 ins
by jacobkg 8y ago
The author is on point with regards to the overall complexity of the setup.
I wanted to add that we switched from ECS without Fargate (managing our own EC2 instanced) to ECS with Fargate and it has been a pure improvement. It’s simpler and easier to manage with less moving parts. I would recommend to anyone currently on ECS to give Fargate a try
- privateSFacct 8y agoI put my intermittent jobs on fargate and long running on ECS back when price difference was there - now wish all on fargate - you have to keep agent up on the ec2 ECS hosts etc, every 6 months I need to tweak ec2 side but they manage fargate in a way that requires little maintenance
- l33tman 8y agoBut can you specify spot instance pricing for Fargate containers? I don't think you could last I checked. Spot instances are 0.25x the cost of normal EC2 instances often, so ECS with Spot launch configs are super-cheap.
- village-idiot 8y agoFargate offers no variable pricing to my knowledge. No spot instances, no reserved. You pay per CPU and memory unit per hour, that’s it.