Fargate

Overview

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers. It allows you to run containers without having to provision or manage servers.

Use Cases

• Running containerized microservices

• Batch data processing jobs

Properties

• Security Groups: Firewall rules defining allowed traffic to containers.

• Task CPU: The amount of CPU to allocate to the task.

• Task Memory: The amount of memory to allocate to the task.

• Container Image: The Docker image to deploy, hosted on ECR or Docker Hub.

• Container Port Mappings: Mapping from container ports to host ports.

• Environment Variables: Configuration options passed to the containers.

Inputs and Outputs

Inputs

None

Outputs

• Logging: Send container logs to CloudWatch or S3.

• Auto Scaling: Scale task count based on usage metrics.