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Level 4: Reliability, security & cloud · L4.6 AWS architecture decisions (SAA-C03)

Containers and APIs on AWS

Choose ECS or EKS, on Fargate or EC2 capacity, or Lambda for a workload moving into containers, and pick an API Gateway REST, HTTP or WebSocket API with the throttling layers that protect the backend.

13 min · Pro

What you take away

  • ECS is AWS's own container orchestrator and EKS is managed Kubernetes; both run on Fargate, with no servers to manage, or on EC2 capacity you run, which is cheaper at steady heavy load and needed for GPUs.

And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.

How the class is laid out

  1. The problem
  2. The simple version
  3. Where the containers run
  4. APIs in front: REST, HTTP or WebSocket
  5. Throttling: buckets in a row
  6. Check your understanding