The benefits in ECS are as follows:
- A managed service for containerized applications that does not require much user input to run Docker applications
- Microservices consisting of multiple applications run in isolated containers
- Auto scales tasks based on application load
- Integrates with other AWS services including IAM, CloudWatch Logs, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFormation templates, EBS Volumes, Batch, ECR, and CloudTrail logs
- A virtual private cloud (VPC) with no resources shared with other users
- Provides support for running a CodePipeline with ECS as the deployment platform
- Supports the latest Docker version 17.0
Fargate provides the following additional benefits:
- With a Fargate launch type, a user does not create or manage any EC2 instances, as none are exposed on the cluster.
- Tasks are directly exposed to the user via an ENI.
- The underlying infrastructure is provisioned by Fargate. EC2 instances are not to be managed with the Fargate launch type.
- CodePipeline supports Fargate as a deployment platform.
- Microservices based on Container definitions encapsulated in a task definition are explicitly linked, and are not to be linked with any additional options, such as links.
- CloudWatch Logs may be auto configured.
