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Preface

At AWS re:Invent 2017, a new launch type for containers called Fargate was announced. This book is about Amazon Fargate, the new launch type for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for Docker containers.

Docker is the de factostandard containerization framework that has revolutionized packaging and deployment of software. Amazon Fargate has made the ECS platform serverless; no EC2 instances to provision, run, or manage. Amazon Fargate runs ECS services on Docker containers and exposes the service tasks directly to the user. Fargate has much simplified the ECS platform by making it serverless.

Amazon Fargate provides the following benefits:

It's supported on AWS ECS, with support to be added on AWS EKS
It's fully integrated ...

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