Container

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Handicap

• It’s horrifyingly complicated. Even after all the infrastructure is set up(Fargate can help), we need to create a task definition, a service, and a container definition. If simplicity is what you’re looking for, ECS is not it.
  • https://technologyconversations.com/2020/08/04/google-cloud-run-gcr-vs-azure-container-instances-aci-vs-aws-ecs-with-fargate/

Fargate: yet another EC2 for container workload

• Managed: Fargate runs on EC2 instances, but you don’t need to manage or provision EC2 instances yourself.
  • No option to choose specific instance types, GPU
  • The following task definition parameters are not valid in Fargate Tasks
• Price
  • Fargate is more expensive than EC2 in unit price
  • Fargate don't need to pay for Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
  • Fractional vCPU: Fargate offers you a minimum of 0.25 vCPU