What's the Difference Between Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate?
Compare Amazon EKS and AWS Fargate side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.
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Amazon EKS
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AWS Fargate
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Category
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Containers, Kubernetes |
Containers, Serverless Containers |
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Description
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Managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications |
Serverless compute for containers. Run containers without managing servers or clusters. |
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Key features
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Pricing model
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$0.10/hr per cluster + underlying compute |
Pay for vCPU and memory per second |
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Free tier
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No |
No |
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Expert take
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"EKS is production-grade Kubernetes without the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating it. From Auto Mode handling compute lifecycle to EKS Capabilities providing managed Argo CD and resource orchestration, teams get the full Kubernetes ecosystem with the reliability and scale of AWS underneath” |
“Fargate removes the need to manage EC2 instances for your containers. Choose it when you want per-task isolation without worrying about patching hosts, right-sizing nodes, or bin-packing. You pay per-second for only the vCPU and memory each task uses.” |
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When to use Amazon EKS or AWS Fargate
Use Amazon EKS when:
- Kubernetes workloads
- Hybrid deployments
- Machine learning
- Batch processing
Use AWS Fargate when:
- Microservices
- Batch processing
- ML inference
- Application migration
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