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Idk about other clouds, but AWS Fargate pretty much requires an ELB which adds annoying fixed cost, so for tiny services bare ec2 can be cheaper. Maybe you can
by zokier 3y ago
Idk about other clouds, but AWS Fargate pretty much requires an ELB which adds annoying fixed cost, so for tiny services bare ec2 can be cheaper. Maybe you can amortize the ELB costs over many services but its still something to take into account
- moojacob 3y agoI employed a workaround instead of using an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for Elastic Container Service (ECS) by incorporating an API Gateway. This approach helped me remain within the free tier. Although Fargate doesn't fall under the free tier, I utilized the EC2 launch type, which should operate similarly. Here's the reference to my idea on Github: https://github.com/jacobduba/ratemydishes/blob/fa63f9e09d34de7e90b856ba966406dc66cc19c7/Backend/cloudformation.yaml#L350 https://github.com/jacobduba/ratemydishes/blob/fa63f9e09d34d....