Understand how AWS Fargate runs your ECS containers without servers—just define CPU, memory, and networking, and AWS handles the compute.

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AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for Amazon ECS that eliminates the need to manage EC2 instances when running containers. You define CPU, memory, and networking requirements in your task definition, and AWS handles provisioning, scaling, patching, and infrastructure management. Fargate provides task-level isolation, per-second billing based on configured resources, and automatic scaling without cluster capacity planning. It works best for microservices, batch jobs, web applications with variable traffic, and development environments where operational simplicity matters more than fine-grained host control.

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