AWS Fargate is a serverless computing engine for containers that enables customers to deploy and manage applications, not infrastructure. Fargate works with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and enables customers to deploy container based applications without having to provision EC2 instances or Kubernetes pods.
AWS Fargate launches and scales compute resources for containers, ensuring that they have the optimal amount of resource available to run customer’s applications. This ensures that they only pay for the resources required by the containers – no more over provisioning and wasted spend.
AWS Fargate also improves security through application isolation – individual ECS tasks or EKS pods run in their own dedicated kernel run time and do not share any underlying compute resources with other tasks and pods.
So what new features are available in the 1.4.0 release announced on April 8th?