--- title: AWS Fargate Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS Fargate Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 96 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Fargate works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 96 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # AWS Fargate Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by AWS Fargate but has limited features. Are you part of the AWS Fargate team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine that enables developers to run containerized applications without the need to manage underlying servers or clusters. By abstracting the infrastructure layer, Fargate allows users to focus solely on building and deploying applications, streamlining the development process and reducing operational overhead. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), providing a flexible and efficient environment for running containers at scale. Key Features and Functionality: - Serverless Compute for Containers: Fargate eliminates the need to provision and manage servers, handling capacity needs, operating system updates, and compliance requirements automatically. - Flexible Resource Configuration: Users can specify precise CPU and memory requirements for each container, with configurations ranging from 0.25 vCPU and 0.5 GB memory up to 4 vCPUs and 30 GB memory, allowing for optimal resource utilization. - Seamless Scaling: Fargate dynamically scales compute capacity to meet application demands, ensuring high availability and performance without manual intervention. - Enhanced Security: Each task or pod runs in its own dedicated runtime environment, providing workload isolation and reducing the risk of cross-container interference. - Integrated Monitoring: Built-in integrations with AWS services like Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights enable users to monitor applications effectively and gather metrics and logs. - Cost Optimization: With a pay-as-you-go pricing model, users pay only for the compute resources consumed by their applications, with per-second billing and no upfront expenses. Primary Value and Problem Solved: AWS Fargate addresses the complexity and overhead associated with managing server infrastructure for containerized applications. By providing a serverless environment, it allows developers to concentrate on writing code and deploying applications without worrying about provisioning, scaling, or maintaining servers. This leads to faster development cycles, improved security through workload isolation, and cost savings by eliminating the need to manage and pay for idle server capacity. Fargate's seamless integration with AWS services further enhances operational efficiency, making it an ideal solution for organizations looking to modernize their application deployment strategies. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS Fargate Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by John Miranda (Digital Marketing Specialist at Amazon Web Services) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 8 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Red Hat OpenShift](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat OpenShift") Red Hat OpenShift 4.5/5(306) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) [ ![Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)") Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 4.5/5(260) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) [ ![SUSE Rancher](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SUSE Rancher") SUSE Rancher 4.4/5(151) ](https://www.g2.com/products/suse-rancher/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 96 real user reviews. 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A great "Serverless" offering by AWS. Fargate makes it easy to setup infrastructure consisting many docker containers and that too in very very less time. A nice tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? For the tasks which are of less time duration, it is a 5x expensive when compared to its other competitors available in the market. It should be cost effective lead in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS Fargate: Go for it.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? No need of management of servers. Aws fargate has a cdk inbuilt & it saves a lot of time especially for developers. Also, it provides 24x7 support for any assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/29/2022 "Senior Devops Engineer" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? Best part is that its simple to configure and no need to worry about scaling servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? Dislike is costly not user friendly.All well nothing issue..no Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? For multiple applications hosting in a easy way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/21/2022 "It works as expected to isolate the environments." 3/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? It helped me to make scaling smooth and secure my environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? The pricing of fargate is the only thing as of now that is in my dislike part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? To secure our containerized setup of multiple environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/23/2022 "very nice container management service" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? It is a great resource to deploy all the container Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? it is not user friendly it is not easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? it is bridging the gap between virtualization and containerization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/23/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/21/2022 "Amazing Fargate" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? Compatible with both ECS and Amazon elastic kubernetes services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? Cost is bit on higher side, should be affordable to all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? Helping in efforts required to manage application, reduce operational overhead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Chemicals](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Chemicals") UC Verified User in Chemicals Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/21/2022 "Great Fargate" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? Reduce operation cost and infrastructure maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? Cost wise on higher side, for startups may not be smooth onboarding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? Infrastructure maintenance drastically reduced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arham T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arham T.") AT Arham T. Junior DevOps Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/12/2021 "Containerize deployment on fargate" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? Aws fargate is used for containerize application deployment, also it uses immutable image to deploy same versions to production without any redundancy, aws fargate also good for serverless deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? Aws fargate uses ecr which is Amazon container registry Everytime the code pushes to ecr innthe form to image it tags it with latest image if someone wants to keeps the old image it doesn't support this we need to do it manually by logging it into ecr. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? Aws fargate solve many problem like we can easily deploy our containerize environment to ecr as it provides the same output as we expected by running our application in localhost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/9/2022 "AWS Fargate - Serverless offering for docker containers" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? Fargate is used to launch docker containers on AWS. User don't need to provision the infrastructure (no EC2 instances to manage). It runs containers for users based on CPU/RAM need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? As of now, there are no dislikes and downsides for this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? In on-premises environment, all the tasks will be hosted in the servers which involve infrastructure team to manage servers. When it's moved to AWS, Fargate helps us to launch docker containers to execute the task inside our VPC. To access this task, We have used Elastic Network Interface to bind this task to a network IP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") AA Verified User in Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/30/2022 "Aws Faregate Provides server-less compute engine" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? AWS Fargate has a key feature of serverless computing and we can leverage both ECS and EKS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? Autoscaling has to be set up with Cloud-watch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? It is the best way to run containers with minimal input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/23/2021 "The Beginning of a Solid Container Runtime" 4/5 What do you like best about AWS Fargate? The zero need to configure infrastructure is beautiful. Fully realizing the promise of containerized workloads. Once configured it just seems to work and a lot of opportunities for configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS Fargate? The amount of configuration required to get this service configured to do anything is immense and not straightforward. While it's nice to have configuration options there should be a well paved path that can be followed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS Fargate solving and how is that benefiting you? Running a auto scaling data migration service. Data migration tasks can scale from zero to many depending on what is happening. Migration tasks run for too long to be used in lambda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about AWS Fargate? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about AWS Fargate ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/discussions/new) GU Guest User What are the benefits and drawbacks of using AWS Fargate for container management? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-benefits-and-drawbacks-of-using-aws-fargate-for-container-management) GU Guest User • Last activity about 4 years ago What exactly is AWS fargate? 0 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-exactly-is-aws-fargate) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 8 months ### Average Discount 8% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/pricing) AWS Fargate Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b3390b4cc3d92e87d570895f7358c003/aws-elastic-beanstalk.jpg "Product Avatar Image") AWS Beanstalk 4.2/5(200) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-elastic-beanstalk-vs-aws-fargate) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_f176b4154a751d10150daa67a57b7dc5/azure-container-instances.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Azure Container Instances 4/5(20) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-fargate-vs-azure-container-instances) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_2ec0fb3d6001279948ececb9e055314c/red-hat-red-hat-openshift.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Red Hat OpenShift 4.5/5(306) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/aws-fargate-vs-red-hat-red-hat-openshift) ##### ##### AWS Fargate Features Management Access Control Network Isolation File Isolation Organization Packaging Container Networking Orchestration Development Developer Toolkit Architecture Datacenter [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Container Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-management) ##### Explore More [Is a breach and attack simulation platform worth it for a mid-size security team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-a-breach-and-attack-simulation-platform-worth-it-for-a-mid-size-security-team%20)[Best AI image software for generating custom social media visuals at scale](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-ai-image-software-for-generating-custom-social-media-visuals-at-scale)[Which Google Workspace academic platforms are most trusted by operations managers based on user reviews?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-google-workspace-academic-platforms-are-most-trusted-by-operations-managers-based-on-user-reviews) [What chatbot platform connects well with Salesforce, HubSpot or Zendesk so customer data does not get lost between the bot and your CRM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-chatbot-platform-connects-well-with-salesforce-hubspot-or-zendesk-so-customer-data-does-not-get-lost-between-the-bot-and-your-crm)[Best cloud-based virtual data room for confidential transactions](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-cloud-based-virtual-data-room-for-confidential-transactions)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)