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I recently gave Fargate a try and was very unimpressed with the costs.

Anecdata is terrible, but my experience running 1 Fargate container 24x7 on the lowest specs (0.25 CPU and 512 MB RAM) to handle baseline was was going to cost as much as a no-contract T3.micro EC2 instance with much more capacity (2 CPU and 1 GB RAM). AWS Kubernetes was also a bust at $120/mo just to get started (that's the cost before an EC2 server is provisioned).

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Fargate has two flavors, ECS or EC2.

EC2 is just EC2 with scaling groups while ECS is a fully non-managed solution that's for small items.

The ECS one is weirdly difficult to set up. If you just want Docker Repo (ECR) -> deploy with some config -> expose a single ingress point it sounds perfect, but I had a TON of trouble with it recently

ECS is best done through Terraform, there's existing templates that will allow you to do this fairly easily.

If it helps, I had the exact same experience. Setup was possible but involved way too many decisions for the obvious use case.

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