Fargate

intermediate
containers
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Definition

AWS serverless container platform - run containers without managing servers or clusters. Like ordering takeout without needing to know how the kitchen works.

Real-World Example

A development team uses Fargate to run their application containers, paying only for the compute time used.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

AWS Fargate runs containers without managing servers, typically via Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS. Azure Container Apps and Google Cloud Run provide similar serverless container execution (often with HTTP/event-driven scaling). OCI Container Instances runs containers without managing VMs, but the surrounding orchestration and scaling features differ by provider.

AWS
AWS Fargate
AZ
Azure Container Apps
GCP
Google Cloud Run
OCI
OCI Container Instances

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