What is AWS Fargate and what is the key difference from running containers on EC2?

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AWS Cloud Practitioner — Hard

What is AWS Fargate and what is the key difference from running containers on EC2?

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AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine where AWS manages the underlying EC2 infrastructure, allowing customers to define CPU and memory requirements without managing EC2 instances. This is different from running containers on EC2, where customers have full control over the instances but need to handle capacity management.