ECS Fargate Service Deployment and Launch Type Selection

Deploy a containerized Nginx application on Amazon ECS using the Fargate launch type. You will create a VPC, an ECS cluster, register a Fargate task definition, create a service, and front it with an Application Load Balancer. The final task walks you through a decision framework comparing Fargate versus ECS EC2 launch types so you can choose the right option for real workloads.

You'll learn to:

• Create an ECS cluster and configure CloudWatch logging
• Register a Fargate task definition with container settings
• Deploy an ECS service with public IP assignment and health management
• Add an Application Load Balancer to distribute traffic across Fargate tasks
• Compare ECS Fargate and EC2 launch types across cost, operations, and scaling

Key Resources:

• Amazon ECS on Fargate
• ECS Task Definitions
• ECS Services