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.
"The most valuable feature of AWS Fargate is its ease of use."
"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."
"If you create your deployment with a good set of rules for how to scale in, you can just set it and forget it."
"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."
"We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy."
"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."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"Because AWS Lambda is serverless, server configuration is not required, and we can run it directly anywhere."
"You can spin up anything instantly without any investment."
"By using Lambda, we can use Python code and the Boto3 solution."
"The valuable feature of AWS Lambda is the ease of coding. It is easier to code using the solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ease and speed of developing the services using any available language is the most valuable feature."
"The feature I found most valuable about Lambda is the fact that it's serverless."
"I have found all of the features valuable. It's an easy and cheap solution."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"AWS Fargate could improve the privileged mode containers. We had some problems and they were not able to run."
"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."
"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 would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."
"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."
"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."
"The metrics and reporting for this solution could be improved."
"Lambda would benefit from a debugging feature as well."
"The 60 seconds limitation with the consumption of the service is really restrictive for a service and the solution can be improved by eliminating that."
"We'd love to see more integration potential in the future."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"If it is a specific ETL process or a long-term one, then AWS Lambda is not a good option."
"Lambda can only be used in one account; there's no possibility to utilize it in another account."
AWS Fargate is ranked 6th in Compute Service with 7 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. AWS Fargate is rated 8.8, 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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