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  5. Amazon ECS vs AWS Fargate

Amazon ECS vs AWS Fargate

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Overview

AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
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Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS
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Followers4
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Detailed Comparison

AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS

AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS* that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

It is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies your deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications.

No clusters to manage; seamless scaling; Integrated with Amazon ECS and EKS
Automatically scale web applications; Support batch processing
Statistics
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650
Stacks
18
Followers
413
Followers
4
Votes
0
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0
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Integrations
Docker
Docker
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS IAM
AWS IAM
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS?

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Containerum

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud is the best way to deploy and manage Dockerized applications. Docker Cloud makes it easy for new Docker users to manage and deploy the full spectrum of applications, from single container apps to distributed microservices stacks, to any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.

instainer

instainer

InstaDocker is a Docker container hosting service which allows run any Docker container on the cloud instantly.

Docker Datacenter

Docker Datacenter

Docker Datacenter is an integrated solution including open source and commercial software, the integrations between them, full Docker API support, validated configurations and commercial support for your Docker Datacenter environment.

DCHQ

DCHQ

DCHQ delivers enterprise discipline to Linux Containers application lifecycle management. Available in hosted and on-prem versions, DCHQ provides the most advanced application composition framework extending Docker Compose through environment variable bindings across images, BASH script plug-ins that can be invoked at request time and post-provision and support for clustering for high availability across multiple hosts and auto-scaling.

Supergiant

Supergiant

Supergiant is a container management platform built on top of Kubernetes. Supergiant makes it easy to deploy and manage faster, and it reduces hardware expenses. Packing algorithm efficiently matches your overall CPU and RAM needs.

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