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Getting started with AWS Fargate

Why AWS Fargate?

Watch this introductory video that explains what AWS Fargate is in under a minute. AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine compatible with Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

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Tutorial

Introduction to AWS Fargate

Take this introductory course to learn how AWS Fargate makes it easier for you to run applications using containers. Walk through an example architecture of Fargate and Amazon ECS.

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Get started with AWS Fargate using Amazon ECS Copilot

Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner and Amazon ECS with Fargate.

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Get started with Infrastructure As Code with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate

With Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, users don't need to manage any middleware, any Amazon EC2 instances, or host OS. Amazon ECS Solution Blueprints, gives you a jumpstart and allows you to learn-by-doing. It codifies best practices, well-designed architecture patterns, and provides end-to-end solutions addressing CI/CD, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

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Observing, troubleshooting, and optimizing workloads running on Amazon ECS

Take this course to learn how to gain observability into your applications running on Amazon ECS. You will learn how to collect metrics, logs, and traces at the system and application level. Finally, learn how to apply this to identify and correct problems.

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Workshop

Amazon ECS workshop

Set up a cluster and deploy a service with tasks using the Fargate launch type through the Amazon ECS CLI.

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Workshop

Amazon EKS workshop

Get started running pods on AWS Fargate with your Amazon EKS cluster.

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Workshop

One Observability workshop

Learn how to integrate CloudWatch Container Insights with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.

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Video

Amazon ECS: AWS Fargate overview (9:32)

Learn the basics of AWS Fargate and how to get started running containerized applications and microservices on AWS with this powerful technology.

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