In addition to and concomitant with the Fargate benefits discussed earlier, Fargate supports the following new features:
- Networking mode,
awsvpc
, is the only supported mode - Host port mappings are not valid with the Fargate launch type networking mode (
awsvpc
), and host ports on which an application is exposed are the same as the container ports ecsTaskExecutionRole
is added for the Fargate launch type to allow for pulling Docker images and sending logs to CloudWatch Logs- Only the
awslogs
log configuration andawslogs
log driver are supported with CloudWatch Logs - Task placement is not supported, as no ECS instances are provisioned to define placement constraints for
- Only Docker images on Docker Hub and Amazon ECR are supported
- Privileged Windows containers are not supported for the Fargate launch type
- Host devices cannot be exposed to a container
- The
host
andsourcePath
parameters for volumes are not supported with the Fargate launch type