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This service exists, it's called AWS Fargate [0]. [0]: https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9bc7 https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-a

• carlosf 5y ago
  Oof Makes sense! I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature. If App Runner ends up supporting private deployments then we can have a true Cloud Run competitor.
  • kolanos 5y ago
    > I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature. Fargate can be scaled to zero. Also, have you tried the CLI? [0] [0]: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli
    • simonw 5y ago
      When I say "scale to zero" I mean like Cloud Run or AWS Lambda: I define it as the service automatically scaling to zero (and hence costing nothing to run) in between requests, but automatically starting up again when a new request comes in - so the request still gets served, it just suffers from a few seconds of cold-start time. I'm pretty sure Fargate doesn't offer this. It sounds like you're talking about the ability to manually (or automatically through scripting) turn off your Fargate containers, then manually turn them back on again - but not in a way that an incoming request still gets served even though the container wasn't running when the request first arrived.
      • ignoramous 5y ago
        Curious, have you used Cloudflare Workers Unbound to see how it compares with Cloud Run in terms of pricing and cold starts?
        • simonw 5y ago
          I haven't yet - my projects (all based around https://datasette.io/ https://datasette.io/) need full Python support, and it looks like Cloudflare Workers still only with with JavaScript or stuff-that-compiles-to-JavaScript. I don't think I can get Datasette working via the Python-to-JavaScript route, it has too many C dependencies (like SQLite).
• simonw 5y ago
  Fargate isn't a competitor to Cloud Run (I wish it was) because it doesn't scale to zero in between requests and scale back up again when new traffic arrives.
  • otterley 5y ago
    Check out AWS App Runner. It may do exactly what you’re looking for.
    • simonw 5y ago
      "Easily pause and resume your App Runner applications using the console, CLI, or API. You’re only billed when the service is running." That doesn't sound like the automated scale-to-zero I get from Cloud Run.
      • otterley 5y ago
        It does scale to zero CPU when your application isn’t serving requests. See the pricing model at https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/pricing/ for more details. It does not scale to zero memory, however, because customers have told us that cold-start latency has been their biggest pain point with Lambda functions. App Runner containers can respond to requests in milliseconds as a result.
        • carlosf 5y ago
          I have the opposite use case. Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.
          • otterley 5y ago
            That sounds like a job for Fargate or EC2 instances that are managed by EC2 Capacity Providers on ECS.
• slumdev 5y ago
  This isn't true. Fargate scales in minutes, not seconds. And it never scales to zero.