AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

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A new compute engine that enables you to use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without having to manage the underlying instances. With Fargate, you don’t need to provision, configure, or scale virtual machines in your clusters to run containers. Fargate can be used with Amazon ECS today, with plans to support Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) in the future.

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AWS Fargate is the #6 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Fargate an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. AWS Fargate is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: AWS Fargate vs Apache Spark. AWS Fargate is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 26% of all views.

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Shinto Paul

Dev manager at London Stock Exchange PLC

May 15, 2023

We have encountered some issues recently. For example, AWS released a new feature called a better quarter, which greatly helped us. Before that, we faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload. After the release of the new feature, we were able to scale vertically by utilizing sixteen CPU units and a large memory capacity. We also experienced issues with scaling in, as it would abruptly terminate the task. However, AWS introduced a feature called task protection that has been helpful in resolving this issue. Nevertheless, during this period, we were exploring a move to Spark due to the challenges we encountered, which is why I rated the overall product as an eight out of ten.

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Dave-Smith

Assistant Director at a government with 10,001+ employees

Sep 1, 2022

AWS Fargate is an Amazon-managed service for Kubernetes. AWS Fargate is used for anything that's containerized and they are all Kubernetes-oriented. It's a nice out-of-the-box pre-packaged solution for deploying. It has good integration with EKS and container registry. It makes it an easy way to…

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Jean-Francois Arbona

Associate Director at Agily

Oct 18, 2022

We use this solution to build, host and develop websites for our clients, as well as deploy and manage containers We appreciate the simple use of containers within this solution, it makes managing the containers quick and easy. We would like to see some improvement in the process documents that…

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AWS Fargate market share

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS Fargate in the Compute Service category stands at 16.5%, marking an increase of 20.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"Fargate itself is a stable product. We are quite satisfied with its performance."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"We faced challenges in vertically scaling our workload."
"I would like to see the older dashboard instead of the newer version. I don't like the new dashboard."

Pricing

"We would advise that this solution has a slightly-higher price point than others on the market. There is a free plan available for start-ups, but the free and lower range licensing models do not provide the full functionality."
"I rate the price of AWS Fargate a four out of five."

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