Your organization is evolving, moving towards managed services in one of the cloud offerings, but still relying on servers. Your team is comfortable managing and automating virtual servers, and is able of packaging services on the servers as you need them, but has no experience with containers.

You’ve been thinking of moving to containers, but felt too intimidated by the idea of managing your own container infrastructure. Just the idea of learning Kubernetes gives you that eerie feeling every time you think of all the things possibly going wrong. There must be an easier way of getting on board that ship...

You’ve learned about the fully managed AWS Fargate service, but there just wasn’t proper justification for taking that route. This talk explores the motivation factors to make that move and start deploying containers within your organization.

This talk provides the motivation and the method for offloading utility tasks or microservices to AWS Fargate. It aims at those teams who haven't yet embraced containers, discussing the benefits and the drawbacks of taking the fully managed Fargate route.