AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that allows developers to run containers without managing the underlying infrastructure. It works with Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) and Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) to handle provisioning, scaling, and management of the compute resources. This enables teams to focus on building applications rather than managing servers or clusters.
Developers should use AWS Fargate when they want to deploy containerized applications without the operational overhead of managing EC2 instances, scaling, or patching. It's ideal for microservices architectures, batch processing jobs, and applications with variable workloads where serverless scaling is beneficial. It simplifies container deployment by abstracting away infrastructure management, making it cost-effective for sporadic or unpredictable traffic patterns.