Q: What is the difference between ECS with EC2 launch type and ECS with Fargate?
- EC2 launch type — you manage the EC2 instances (the container hosts). You're responsible for patching, scaling the cluster, choosing in...
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Initial Diagnostics & Root Cause Analysis
Choose EC2 when you need GPU containers, custom AMIs, network performance tuning, or cost optimization at scale. Choose Fargate for simplicity, small teams, or variable workloads.
- EC2 launch type — you manage the EC2 instances (the container hosts). You're responsible for patching, scaling the cluster, choosing instance types. More control and potentially cheaper at scale.
- Fargate — serverless containers. AWS manages the underlying infrastructure. You just define CPU/memory per task. No instances to manage. Faster to set up. More expensive per unit of compute but no over-provisioning waste.
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Remediation & Permanent Safeguards
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- EC2 launch type — you manage the EC2 instances (the container hosts). You're responsible for patc...
- Fargate — serverless containers. AWS manages the underlying infrastructure. You just define CPU/m...
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