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.