Fargate

Overview Classic Lambda is fantastic when traffic is spiky, the operational budget is close to zero, and paying per invocation makes sense. But there is a point where some workloads start to feel slightly awkward inside the normal Lambda model. Not because they are long-running. Not because they need state. Just because they are high-volume, fairly predictable, and more about sustained compute efficiency than burst elasticity. That is where Lambda Managed Instances becomes interesting. ...

Overview There is a recurring pattern I keep seeing with side projects and small internal tools. The application is fine. The container is fine. The AWS part is what slows everything down. Not because ECS is bad. Quite the opposite: plain ECS gives you a lot of control. But that control comes with a lot of setup. Subnets, load balancer, listener rules, security groups, scaling policies, logging, IAM roles, health checks, certificates. For a production platform team this is normal life. For one container and one weekend project, it is a lot. ...

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github. Furthermore, most of the ML/AI tools are shipped in docker containers and the philosophy -> if it runs on docker, it runs everywhere has been spread up to the highest level of management (nice, but… sometimes dangerous 😅 ed. ) And it’s pretty much true, buuuuut… ...

Intro If you work with AWS, you might be involved in building infrastructure to enable some of your customers (both internal and external) to use a particular service, or just to try one of the hundreds open-source application available on Github. Furthermore, most of the ML/AI tools are shipped in docker containers and the philosophy -> if it runs on docker, it runs everywhere has been spread up to the highest level of management (nice, but… sometimes dangerous 😅 ed. ) And it’s pretty much true, buuuuut… ...