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The Fargate launch type allows you to run your containerised applications without the need to provision and manage the backend infrastructure. Just register your task definition and Fargate launches the container for you.Fargate Launch Type is a serverless infrastructure managed by AWS.Fargate only supports container images hosted on Elastic Container Registry (ECR) or Docker Hub.
The EC2 launch type allows you to run your containerised applications on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances that you manage.Private repositories are only supported by the EC2 Launch Type.
Launch Types
An Amazon ECS launch type determines the type of infrastructure on which your tasks and services are hosted.
There are two launch types, and the table below describes some of the differences between the two launch types:
Fargate Launch Type
EC2 Launch Type
EC2 vs Fargate
Column 1
Column 2
Amazon EC2
Amazon Fargate
You can explicitly provision EC2 instances
The control plan asks for resources and Fargate automatically provisions
You’re responsible for upgrading, patching, care of EC2 pool
Fargate provisions compute as needed
You must handle cluster optimization
Fargate handles customer optimizations
More granular control over infrastructure
Limited control, as infrastructure is automated
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