AWS launched AWS Batch on December 2016 as a fully managed batch computing service that enables developers, scientists and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. With AWS Batch, you no longer need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters to run your jobs. AWS Batch is designed to remove the heavy lifting of batch workload management by creating compute environments, managing queues, and launching the appropriate compute resources to run your jobs quickly and efficiently.

Last week AWS introduced the ability to specify AWS Fargate as a computing resource for AWS Batch jobs. AWS Fargate is a serverless computing engine for containers that eliminates the need to provision and manage your own servers. With this enhancement, customers will now have a way to run their jobs on serverless computing resources: simply submit your analysis, ML inference, map reduce analysis, and other batch workloads, and let Batch and Fargate handle the rest.

Customers running batch workloads in the cloud have a variety of orchestration needs: for example, workloads need to be queued, submitted to a compute resource, given priorities, dependencies and retries need to be handled, compute needs to be scalable and available, and users need to account for utilization and resource management. While AWS Batch simplifies all the queuing, scheduling, and lifecycle management for customers, and even provisions and manages compute in the customer account, customers are looking for even more simplicity where they can get up and running in minutes. Time spent on image maintenance, right-sizing of compute, and monitoring is time not spent on applications. These customer needs have led AWS to develop Fargate integration.

AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate is now generally available for all AWS Regions where AWS Batch and AWS Fargate are available.

Read AWS blog and learn how to start taking advantage of the benefits of serverless computing without the need for image patching, isolation of VM boundaries, and calculation of the correct size.