Fargate is a subset of ECS that uses fully managed VMs. We used our own ASGs with the AWS provided ECS optimized AMI. Even adding fluent-bit is more software t

Fargate is a subset of ECS that uses fully managed VMs. We used our own ASGs with the AWS provided ECS optimized AMI. Even adding fluent-bit is more software to manage. ECS uses the Cloudwatch Logs driver integrated directly in Docker with full support by AWS. Fluent-bit adds another layer of buffering, permissions, and resource usage you have to account for Even using AWS provided stuff there's at least 4 ways to put nodes in your cluster (manually managed ASGs, cluster autoscaler managed ASGs, EKS managed node groups, Karpenter)