[abd12]

I think you're right that Fargate and Lambda often serve different use cases.

However, I think containers and Lambda can and do serve this particular use case -- handle an API request and forward it to a different system. And Fargate is a good stand-in for containers generally. I wouldn't expect much different performance by using ECS or EKS or EC2 -- it's still going to be a load balancer forwarding to a container instance.

Definitely not perfect, but I think it works as a general approximation. For this particular common use case, you have three options. Was curious to see the perf differences between them.

* Original author here.