What is Fargate?
AWS serverless compute engine for containers — no node management required.
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with ECS and EKS. With Fargate, you don't manage EC2 nodes — AWS provisions and manages the underlying infrastructure. You just define CPU and memory requirements for your tasks/pods and Fargate runs them. Each Fargate task gets its own kernel for strong isolation. Fargate simplifies operations but can be more expensive than optimized EC2 node groups for sustained workloads.
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ECR (Elastic Container Registry)
AWS's fully managed container image registry service.
EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
AWS's managed Kubernetes service that runs the K8s control plane for you.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
AWS service for managing user identities and permissions for cloud resources.
IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts)
EKS feature that allows Kubernetes pods to assume AWS IAM roles without node-level credentials.
Spot Instance
Unused cloud capacity offered at up to 90% discount that can be reclaimed with 2-minute notice.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
A logically isolated network in the cloud where you launch your cloud resources.
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