A 2020 Guide to Computing on Amazon Web Services

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As cloud vendors vie for market share, Amazon Web Services seems to be winning the battle for cloud computing in terms of annual revenue. Ultimately, it comes down to whether you want to go down the route of serverless applications, or make use of containers — or even implement a hybrid architecture. In terms of compute services, Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda are the popular choices in the paradigms of IaaS, CaaS, and FaaS respectively.

This is because AWS Fargate is a serverless container and can also be defined as a CaaS service.

Similar to AWS Lambda, Fargate is also scalable and highly available; and this is expected, since both services have AWS Firecracker running under the hood.

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