Aws Fargate — AWS Solutions Architect Associate Practice Questions
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that removes the need to provision or manage the underlying EC2 instances in an ECS or EKS cluster. On the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam, Fargate is important because it shifts operational responsibility for patching, scaling, and capacity management to AWS, making it a strong answer for scenarios where the organization wants to run containers without managing servers. You are expected to understand Fargate pricing (charged per vCPU and memory per second), its integration with ECS task definitions and EKS pods, and how it compares to EC2 launch type in terms of control and cost. Selecting Fargate versus managing your own EC2-backed cluster is a common trade-off question on the exam.