Creating a Fargate Cluster

Let's start by configuring the Fargate Cluster, which act as a point of anchor when configuring other AWS services. Our cluster will eventually run a cluster service, which we will gradually build up in the following sections.

At the time of publishing, AWS Fargate is only available in AWS US East region, with support for more regions and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) coming soon. Kubernetes is a widely preferred open source alternative to AWS ECS with richer capabilities for container orchestration with on-premises, cloud, and cloud-hybrid deployments.

Let's create the cluster:

  1. Navigate to Elastic Container Service
  2. Click on Clusters | Create Cluster
  3. Select the Networking only... ...

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