[pram]

From my perspective Fargate offers the functionality I would have expected from ECS in the first place. What ECS provides OOB requires too much janitoring and ultimately isn't terribly different in effort compared to running your own k8s or mesos infra on EC2 instances you provisioned yourself. You still basically needed an orchestration layer over ECS.

Which is why, I assume, Fargate is now listed as an integral feature of ECS on the product page.

[NathanKP]

Yeah to be clear the Fargate container hosting was always the vision for ECS, from the very first internal proposal to build this system. But its necessary to build something that keeps track of container state at scale first, and that is ECS. We built ECS so that it can keep track of container state both in Fargate and containers running on your own self managed EC2 hosts. This gives you the most flexibility if you have really specific needs for your container hosts that Fargate can't cover for you.