What is new in the Amazon Fargate launch type mode?

In addition to and concomitant with the Fargate benefits discussed earlier, Fargate supports the following new features:

  •  Networking mode, awsvpc, is the only supported mode
  •  Host port mappings are not valid with the Fargate launch type networking mode (awsvpc), and host ports on which an application is exposed are the same as the container ports
  • ecsTaskExecutionRole is added for the Fargate launch type to allow for pulling Docker images and sending logs to CloudWatch Logs
  • Only the awslogs log configuration and awslogs log driver are supported with CloudWatch Logs
  • Task placement is not supported, as no ECS instances are provisioned to define placement constraints for
  • Only Docker images on Docker Hub and Amazon ECR are supported
  • Privileged Windows containers are not supported for the Fargate launch type
  • Host devices cannot be exposed to a container
  •  The host and sourcePath parameters for volumes are not supported with the Fargate launch type