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AWS ECS Fargate Patterns

AWS ECS Fargate patterns covering task definitions, CDK deployment, autoscaling, health checks, secrets management, load balancing, and security best practices.

Difficulty
intermediate
Read time
1 min read
Version
v1.0.0
Confidence
established
Last updated

Quick Reference

AWS ECS Fargate: Serverless containers with hypervisor-level isolation. Use CDK aws-ecs-patterns for ALB+Fargate. Target tracking autoscaling (CPU 50%, memory 70%). Container health checks required. Secrets from Secrets Manager via valueFrom. Task role for AWS API access, execution role for ECR/logs. Fargate Spot for cost savings.

Use When

  • AWS container deployment
  • Serverless containers AWS
  • ECS service deployment
  • Fargate workloads

Skip When

  • Azure Container Apps
  • Kubernetes on EKS
  • EC2-based ECS

AWS ECS Fargate Patterns

AWS ECS Fargate patterns covering task definitions, CDK deployment, autoscaling, health checks, secrets management, load balancing, and security best practices.

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aws ecs fargate containers cdk autoscaling

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