Name: AWS Fargate
Rating: 4.6 (99 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on AWS Fargate

Updated 13th October 2025

What is AWS Fargate?

AWS Fargate is a software offered by Amazon Web Services that enables users to run containers without managing servers or clusters. The software handles provisioning, configuring, and scaling of compute resources needed to run containerized applications. AWS Fargate integrates with orchestration services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, allowing for automatic resource allocation and isolation at the task or pod level. This software aims to address operational overhead by automating infrastructure management, which assists businesses in deploying and managing applications in a scalable and secure manner.

Overall experience with AWS Fargate

SENIOR MANAGER

<50M USD, IT Services

FAVORABLE

“Managing Containers with AWS Fargate Reduces Operational Tasks for Many Teams”

5.0

Nov 7, 2025

My overall experience with AWS and Fargate has been great as of now. I have been able to streamline our application deployment and development lifecycles without having to worry too much about some of the nuances of networking, security, and management that can come with deploying applications on virtual machines or even Kubernetes.

LEAD ENGINEER

10B - 30B USD, Media

CRITICAL

“Redeployment Delays and Frequent Outages Reported in Cloud Service Operations”

2.0

Nov 27, 2025

The service is very slow. We run one container because the service isn't and can't be highly available. Unfortunately, the redeployment takes random time. From 2 mins to 12 mins. If the outage lasts too long, the service will be unavailable in the meantime. I would expect the redeployment in seconds nowadays. Also, updates of this service are very often and automatically reloads this service, causing other interruptions.

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For Market:
Container Management

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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AWS Fargate Likes & Dislikes

AWS Fargate is a great platform that can be used to manage containers without having to worry about a lot of the operational tasks that would have to be performed in the underlying infrastructure or operating system. This solution can also be very helpful for those without the in-house knowledge of a platform like Kubernetes, as that can often cause an organization to endure more operational overhead, depending on the scale required for the applications being deployed.

It works more-or-less out of the box. It's configured via Terraform.

Key features I like the most are-No need to manage EC2 instances or clusters,Works perfectly with ECS and EKS, Automatically adjusts resources based on workloads, Built-in IAM integration and isolation for tasks and fibnally pay only for the resources used.

The separation between tasks, containers, and services within Fargate can be a bit confusing when first learning the ins and outs of the platform. Additionally, connecting to more static storage components like S3 or EBS can take a little tinkering before figuring them out.

Very long redeployment times. It's just a container, it starts locally in 1-2 seconds. Why it can't start in the same time in cloud?

Cost can escalate for high volume workloads. Less flexibility when compared with Self-managed Kubernates clusters Required additional AWS services like CloudWatch and X-ray for deep insights.

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<50M USD

IT Services

Review Source

Managing Containers with AWS Fargate Reduces Operational Tasks for Many Teams

MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

50M-1B USD

Services (non-Government)

Integration and Automation Strengths Noted in AWS Fargate Container Management

4.0

Nov 6, 2025

My overall experience with AWS fargate has been excellent. It simplifies container management by allowing us to run containers without managing servers or clusters.The serverless approach reduces operational overhead and accelerate deployment cycles. Integration with AWS services like ECS and EKS is seamless, and auto scaling capabilities ensure cost efficiency and performance. The platform is ideal for teams that want to focus on application development rather than infra management.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Software

AWS Fargate Streamlines Container Deployment, May Increase Expenses for Always-On Tasks

Nov 18, 2025

AWS Fargate simplifies orchestration by removing the need to manage servers or clusters -- it's ideal for microservices and event-driven workloads. It also provides the scalability and reliability of AWS infrastructure. It's fully managed environment eliminates the overhead of maintaining EC2 instances.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Media

Fargate Simplifies Deployment, But Lacks GPU Support and Instant Scaling

Nov 17, 2025

We are running a bunch of production workloads on Fargate. If you have some experience with development and deployment of containerized applications it's really straightforward and time-to-market is very fast.

CHIEF ARCHITECT

10B+ USD

Consumer Goods

AWS Fargate Delivers Fast Setup and Stability for Simple Workloads

Nov 10, 2025

AWS Fargate has been very stable and required minimal effort to set up and integrate with other services.