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ECS task placement strategy to deploy across group of ec2 instances

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Scenario - 2 t3.medium machines registered to the ecs cluster. I want to run 9 java microservices containers Should I create a single task definition and have all the containers in it and have a service with placement strategy set to spread across instanceids? - IS ecs smart enough to decide the container placement across instances based on the cpu and memory available in them? OR Should I create a task definition for each microservice? Please advise on what is the better approach and best practices.

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rePost-User-2738569
asked a year ago599 views
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Hi,

Is it a real requirement for you to run with ECS on your own EC2 instances? If not, I would suggest to switch to Fargate, which is the serverless version of ECS. It will handle scaling, placement, HA, etc. for you.

So, less "heavy lifting" on your side.

See https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

Additionally, for some use cases, Fargate may prove cheaper then EC2: it depends on the utilization of your instances. See this blog post for some calculations to see which one is better: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/theoretical-cost-optimization-by-amazon-ecs-launch-type-fargate-vs-ec2/

Best,

Didier

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Didier_Durand
answered a year ago
  • rePost-User-2738569
    a year ago

    Hi @Didier_Durand, Thanks for answering for my question If we pick fargate launch type then it will be very expensive. That's because we pick EC2 instead of fargete

    Fargate calculation

    Number of tasks or pods: 1 per day * (730 hours in a month / 24 hours in a day) = 30.42 per month
Average duration: 30 days = 720 hours

    Pricing calculations 30.42 tasks x 2 vCPU x 720 hours x 0.04048 USD per hour = 1,773.22 USD for vCPU hours 30.42 tasks x 4.00 GB x 720 hours x 0.004445 USD per GB per hour = 389.42 USD for GB hours 20 GB - 20 GB (no additional charge) = 0.00 GB billable ephemeral storage per task 1,773.22 USD for vCPU hours + 389.42 USD for GB hours = 2,162.64 USD total Fargate cost (monthly): 2,162.64 USD

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