ECS + Fargate versus ECS + Cluster Auto Scaling
Learn how ECS + Fargate differs from ECS + Cluster Auto Scaling.
| ECS + Fargate | ECS + Cluster Auto Scaling | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Options | ⚠️ AWS only |
⚠️ AWS only (except ECS Anywhere) |
| Availability | ✅ All AWS regions |
✅ All AWS regions |
| Cluster Costs (per month) | $ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Compute Costs | 💰💰 |
💰 |
| Compute Pricing Options | ✅ On-demand |
✅ On-demand |
| Virtual Machines | ✅ Does not involve managing EC2 instances. |
⚠️ EC2 instances running in your AWS account. ECS Cluster Auto Scaling does not cover all aspects of operating virtual machines (e.g. rolling update to update AMI). |
| Infrastructure Scaling | ✅ AWS takes care of the scaling of the infrastructure. |
⚠️ ECS Cluster Auto Scaling works fine for scaling up. But will not scale down automatically in most scenarios. |
| Networking | ✅ ENI and Security Group per task/container. |
✅ ENI and Security Group per task/container. |
| Load Balancing | ✅ ALB + NLB |
✅ ALB + NLB + CLB |
| Service Discovery | ✅ Cloud Map |
✅ Cloud Map |