AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate provides serverless compute specifically for running containers. It handles the underlying infrastructure management, letting you deploy containerized applications without provisioning or managing EC2 instances. You just define your task requirements and let the service handle the scaling and execution.
This fits teams wanting to run containers without managing server fleets. The catch is the pricing model, which requires contacting AWS directly rather than offering a public rate card. There is also no free tier available, so costs will apply immediately upon usage.
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instance (ECI) no price Compare
- Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run $2.50 per 1M GiB-seconds Compare
- Microsoft Azure Azure Container Instances $0.000879 per 100 units Compare