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Fargate isn't a competitor to Cloud Run (I wish it was) because it doesn't scale to zero in between requests and scale back up again when new traffic arrives.

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Check out AWS App Runner. It may do exactly what you’re looking for.

"Easily pause and resume your App Runner applications using the console, CLI, or API. You’re only billed when the service is running."

That doesn't sound like the automated scale-to-zero I get from Cloud Run.

It does scale to zero CPU when your application isn’t serving requests. See the pricing model at https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/pricing/ for more details. It does not scale to zero memory, however, because customers have told us that cold-start latency has been their biggest pain point with Lambda functions. App Runner containers can respond to requests in milliseconds as a result.

I have the opposite use case.

Most of the stuff my company is running is made up of data pipelines and machine learning pipelines. So we have a lot of infrequent jobs that don't really care about latency.

That sounds like a job for Fargate or EC2 instances that are managed by EC2 Capacity Providers on ECS.

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