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Warning to those who think Fargate is green pastures: it has its own learning curve. Also, it costs about ~1.8-2.5X the price of standard EC2 for the convenience. Don't waste your money on it for long-running containers that will rarely need to scale.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I wrote about Fargate because I like the idea of having a service that manages both masters AND workers and where you only need to care about the API, but didn't really try it yet. That was my impression as well, though. Even the use cases mentioned in the pricing site are just containers running for a few hours a day, and not long-running services like servers.

The smallest fargate container in us-east-1 will cost you USD 13 per month if you never shut it down.

Avoid using a load balancer as they are quite pricey (although it will allow you to create and use auto-managed SSL certificates for free.)

Of course you will also pay for egress traffic.

The nicest part of Fargate is that:

* you can define your whole cluster using a docker-compose like format.

* you can manage your cluster using the ECS CLI. No extra tool needed.

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