AWS Fargate Reviews

Name: AWS Fargate
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4.3 (17 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

17 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is AWS Fargate?

A new compute engine that enables you to use containers as a fundamental compute primitive without having to manage the underlying instances. With Fargate, you don’t need to provision, configure, or scale virtual machines in your clusters to run containers. Fargate can be used with Amazon ECS today, with plans to support Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) in the future.

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AWS Fargate is the #2 ranked solution in top Compute Service solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Fargate an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. AWS Fargate is most commonly compared to Apache Spark: AWS Fargate vs Apache Spark. AWS Fargate is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 22% of all views.

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Featured AWS Fargate reviews

Subrata Mukherjee

Senior Technical Architect; Head of Platform at Blenheim Chalcot IT Services India

We are a venture builder company, and if we select AWS for our product. Our design is based on a serverless architecture model. ECS Fargate is the most convenient way in terms of scalability, integration, and cost control Thanks to the serverless model and easy integration features, a few…

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FABIO NAGAO

Chief Technology Officer at Looplex SA

There is a tool named Compose that helps in converting the Docker Compose file into a Kubernetes file. For ECS and Fargate, AWS reads a Dockerfile and helps with conversion. However, I am uncertain if it's ready for deployment after conversion. Despite this, manual configurations are very easy, and we manage to get by the process.

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Ashish Makasare

AWS & Azure DevOps Engineer at Cravita Technologies India Private Limited

I would like to see enhanced faster application scaling and better integration with the elastic file system to unify storage volumes and improve the launch time of instances. It requires enhancements to orchestrate containers more effectively and handle resource limits like CPU and memory constraints, particularly when load balancing, as it affects the auto-scaling configurations.

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AWS Fargate mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of AWS Fargate in the Compute Service category stands at 14.4%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Compute Service

PeerResearch reports based on AWS Fargate reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Compute Service	May 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs AWS Lambda	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	AWS Fargate vs AWS Batch	May 19, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Apache Spark	4.2	11.3%	90%	66 interviews Add to research
AWS Lambda	4.3	21.3%	94%	88 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"AWS Fargate is a fully managed service, and it's very easy to use compared to other services like Elastic Beanstalk Service (EBS)."
"All AWS services allow me to manage a wide range of applications and services."
"Fargate is beneficial for hosting our solutions and providing workflow management, creating legal documents, and delivering business intelligence."

Room for Improvement

"As I have not worked with Fargate extensively, I do not have any specific improvements."
"There are features that could be added or enhanced."
"There is a tool named Compose that helps in converting the Docker Compose file into a Kubernetes file. For ECS and Fargate, AWS reads a Dockerfile and helps with conversion. However, I am uncertain if it's ready for deployment after conversion."

Pricing

"We would advise that this solution has a slightly-higher price point than others on the market. There is a free plan available for start-ups, but the free and lower range licensing models do not provide the full functionality."
"I rate the price of AWS Fargate a four out of five."

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