A developer built an application that calls an external API to obtain data, processes the...

Requirement Summary:

Containerized app

Runshourly

Minimal CPU and RAM

Goal:Least infrastructure management

Evaluate Options:

A. Add a capacity provider to manage instances

❌Capacity providers are used for managingEC2-backed ECS clusters, which still requireunderlying EC2management.

B. Add an Amazon EC2 instance

❌Involvesmanaging infrastructure(provisioning, patching, scaling, etc.)

✅C. Use AWS Fargate launch type

✅Serverless containerruntime

✅No server management

✅Easily scheduled usingEventBridge + ECS Fargate Task

✅Best fit for periodic workloadslike this

D. Use managed node groups

❌Applies toEKS (Kubernetes), not ECS

Unnecessary overheadfor this use case

Fargate:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/what-is-fargate.html

Scheduled ECS tasks:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/scheduled_tasks.html