AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service.

Basics of AWS Fargate To understand what AWS Fargate is and what it does (and the benefits), it’s best to start at the beginning. Amazon introduced the cloud compute engine back in 2017.

As the battle for container services heats up, AWS is upping its already strong game. New services across the portfolio were announced both during and before re:Invent, including upgrades to Fargate.

The first Fargate inline scanning increases visibility and reduces risk By extending the Amazon ECR integration to listen for Fargate tasks, Sysdig triggers automated scans directly within Amazon ECR.

Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced that Elastic Kubernetes Service is available on Fargate. EKS is Amazon’s flavor of Kubernetes.

AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that allows users to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. By supporting workloads within ...

AWS will be developing Fargate going forward for greater integration with Kubernetes, he added. To that end, AWS’ new outbound team for open-source collaboration should be handy.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced customers can now use its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to run Kubernetes pods on AWS Fargate.

If you’re running Kubernetes on AWS, you can choose from several options; ECS, EKS, or AWS Fargate. But which is the best for you?