The Fargate Illusion

Re:The Fargate Illusion by jacobkg on Sunday April 14, 2019 @02:05PM (#19660754)

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

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Re:The Fargate Illusion by privateSFacct on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:22PM (#19661161)

I 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

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Re:The Fargate Illusion by l33tman on Sunday April 14, 2019 @06:53PM (#19662170)

But 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.

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Re:The Fargate Illusion by village-idiot on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:33AM (#19664822)

Fargate offers no variable pricing to my knowledge. No spot instances, no reserved. You pay per CPU and memory unit per hour, that’s it.

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