#33 ECS vs. Fargate: What's the difference?

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Notes

Don't miss the blog post ECS vs. Fargate: What's the difference?, the written version of this podcast episode.

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Rapid Docker on AWS (00:02:02)

3. Running containers on AWS: ECS and EKS (00:03:30)

4. Introducing ECS (00:06:48)

5. Compute Infrastructure: EC2 (00:09:25)

6. Compute Infrastructure: Fargate (00:14:48)

7. EC2 (ECS Container Instance) vs. Fargate (00:17:40)

8. Fargate in-the-wild (00:29:35)

9. Summary: ECS or Fargate? (00:33:38)

10. Outro (00:34:42)