AWS Container Orchestration 2: App Runner vs ECS Fargate

Introduction

I previously wrote about AWS App Runner and how it is an amazing tool for application deployment. How it makes deployment of containers and applications easy and smooth, with little or no DevOps and deployment knowledge needed. In this article, I shall compare App Runner and ECS Fargate.

Both technologies have a lot of things in common; they both do not require any server setup or configurations. This article will try to explain the different workings of the technologies, draw their similarities and differences, and suggest when to use which over which. As I have mentioned in my previous LinkedIn post, no technology or service is perfect, we use them based on what they were built for. Without further ado let us get right into comparing AWS App Runner with Amazon ECS Fargate.

I did a similar article here; where I compared EKS and ECS, the same format shall be used in this comparison with some extras. To ride on what was done before. We shall not be going through the basics again because that has been done here for AppRunner and here for ECS.

In this article, we shall be making a comparison between these two container orchestration AWS services as we have done in the past, where we compared Amazon EKS to Amazon ECS.

Why Compare?

Solutions Architects and DevOps engineers can find it hard to choose between AWS technologies mostly when it looks like both…