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Why go with Fargate instead of EC2?
by DoofWarrior 11mo ago
Why go with Fargate instead of EC2?
- norapap 11mo agoWe went with Fargate because it keeps things lean — no servers to manage, no patching, no scaling headaches. It’s perfect for our bursty workloads, since we only pay when containers actually run . Plus autoscaling just works . In the github you can find comments to easily switch to EC2 if your workload needs it
- leetrout 11mo agoJust as an aside for the fargate convo... we switched from fargate to EC2 auto scaling group so we could run a custom AMI that has our container images (which are larger than I like) pre-baked and we went from a ~3 minute startup in fargate to ~30 seconds with the ASG when it's not triggering a scaling action. We're using prefect not Temporal and each prefect flow launches in a discrete ECS task so the waiting added up.