We performed a comparison between AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS Fargate has many valuable services. It does the job with minimal trouble. It's very observable. You can see what's going on and you have logs. You have everything. You can troubleshoot it. It's affordable and it's flexible."
"I like their containerization service. You can use Docker or something similar and deploy quickly without the know-how related to, for example, Kubernetes. If you use AKS or Kubernetes, then you have to have the know-how. But for Fargate, you don't need to have the know-how there. You just deploy the container or the image, and then you have the container, and you can use it as AWS takes care of the rest. This makes it easier for those getting started or if you don't have a strong DevOps team inside your organization."
"AWS Fargate is an easy-to-use tool to simplify setup. You only pay for the resources you use. If you need to quickly create, delete, or scale applications without managing resources like EC2 instances, Fargate is the best service to use."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"The most valuable feature of Fargate is that it's self-managed. You don't have to configure your own clusters or deploy any Kubernetes clusters. This simplifies the initial deployment and scaling process."
"One of the most valuable features of AWS Lambda is the performance. Lambda is very technical and has very high performance, as well as good real-time performance."
"It is my preferred product, as it provides me with source code within the solution."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda is that you can trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped automatedly."
"The stability is good."
"What I like best about AWS Lambda is that it's feature-rich, and I appreciate that. I also like that it's stable and supports many languages."
"The ability to scale up and down very quickly helps because we can maintain our system performance and business at a low cost."
"The programming language and the integration with other AWS services are the most valuable features."
"It enables the launch of thousands of instances simultaneously,"
"We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that are provided with this product, particularly for auto-scaling and other configuration tools that are a bit complicated."
"If there are any options to manage containers, that would be good. That relates more to the cost point. For example, over the next three months, I'll be making a comparison between solutions like CAST AI and other software-as-a-service platforms that offer Kubernetes management with an emphasis on cost reduction."
"The main area for improvement is the cost, which could be lowered to be more competitive with other major cloud providers."
"I heard from my team that it's not easy to predict the cost. That is the only issue we have with AWS Fargate, but I think that's acceptable. AWS Fargate isn't user-friendly. Anything related to Software as a Service or microservice architecture is not easy to implement. You're required to have DevOps from your side to implement the solution. AWS Fargate is just a temporary solution for us. When we grow to a certain level, we may use AKS for better control."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"There is room for improvement in user-friendliness. When comparing this solution to others it is not as user-friendly."
"I think that perhaps Lambda could explore its functionality more."
"It can be a bit difficult to switch between accounts when creating services for customers."
"The execution time could be better. One of the major limitations is the time period because it doesn't give you more than seven minutes. So, before thinking about Lambda, you should think through your use case and ensure it's a good fit. Otherwise, you can use batch, step functions, or other methods. Reports and the monitoring board could also be improved in terms of alerts. The threshold alerts are there but can be improved. It takes some time to get used to these methods and get the hang of them."
"I would like to see some better integration with other providers, like Cohesity, Druva, and others. I also think the Lambda interface could be better."
"Security needs to be improved."
"The running time of AWS Lambda runs fine. It takes around five minutes but it would be great if that time could be extended."
"The product could make the process of integration easier."
AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 8 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. AWS Fargate is rated 8.6, while AWS Lambda is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Fargate writes "Offers serverless capabilities, self-managed, simplifies ease of use and integrates with other AWS services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". AWS Fargate is most compared with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon EC2, AWS Batch, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Apache Spark, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark and Google Cloud Dataflow. See our AWS Fargate vs. AWS Lambda report.
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