Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available

by mcrute on 12/3/2019, 4:35:29 PM with 14 comments

  • by privateSFacct on 12/3/2019, 5:36:58 PM

    I just use fargate directly (ECS I guess) - it works pretty nicely for small apps.

    I was reading someone wanted EKS but the $180/month for management layer was way too much. Do people use EKS for tiny projects? It seems like a lot of complexity to carry around.

  • by babyyoda on 12/3/2019, 4:49:19 PM

    Great to see - but amazon marketing is approaching Apple levels. Lots of talk of “only service of its kind” where things like Azure Virtual Nodes (ACI + AKS) and Google Cloud Run have been GA for months

  • by pritambarhate on 12/3/2019, 5:38:12 PM

    > Additionally, you pay the standard cost for each EKS cluster you run, $0.20 per hour.

    So AWS K8S tax still applies!

  • by tootie on 12/3/2019, 5:26:19 PM

    Why would I choose EKS over ECS? Just for better cross-compatibility with non-Amazon platforms?

  • by gravypod on 12/3/2019, 5:46:49 PM

    Does this integrate with persistent volumes to allow you to mount EBS into these? If so this is a great offering since it directly integrates with VPC, EBS, ELBs, and everything with no node overhead to worry about.

  • by paulopontesm on 12/3/2019, 4:40:34 PM

    Finally!