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The Amazon Elastic Container Service (or ECS) is the container orchestration system built by AWS. ECS features tight integration with many AWS services, and is a powerful choice for running containers in the cloud. We first discussed ECS back in episode 3 of Mobycast. But so much has changed in the 18 months since then, bringing many major improvements. One new feature is Fargate, which brings the serverless concept to containers. With Fargate, you no longer need to manage servers. You don't pay for idle CPU. And there is the promise of seamless scaling. Sounds perfect, right? Well, as with most things that sound too good to be true, there are some limitations and gotchas. In this episode of Mobycast, Jon and Chris kick off a three-part series where we dive deep into Fargate. We learn the ins and outs of running containers without managing servers and discuss the trade-offs we make when ditching those servers.