One very important consideration when talking about containers is managing the underlying infrastructure. Of course, we're talking about ECS Fargate, so that's not going to be the case here. You're not going to be managing the infrastructure itself. However, you may need to manage the capacity. So, if you're running hundreds of copies, maybe even thousands of copies of your containers, just to be able to keep up with demand, you need to understand capacity providers. 

So, I'm going to throw in this additional lesson just so that you're aware of this even though this is more a topic for ECS traditional as opposed to ECS Fargate because as I mentioned, we're using ECS Fargate and the whole point being is to not have to manage infrastructure. However, that's not always the case because you do have two options when it comes to capacity management in ECS Fargate, and let's take a look at that right now. If we go into our cluster, you see that there's a tab here that says Infrastructure.

So, we click there and there's Capacity providers. This is what manages that particular capacity. If this was a traditional ECS cluster, you would see that here you have an option. You give it a name to the capacity provider and then you specify an Auto Scaling group. In that group, of course, there's going to be a template associated with it, and that template's going to say, "Hey, I need T2 micros, I need T3 mediums, or N fives," or whatever kind of machine you need to run your containers. You're going to define that in there. If we jump over real quick to the documentation, you'll see that you have options when it comes to Capacity providers. But keep in mind that these are mutually exclusive. So, if you specify Auto Scaling and those settings are going to be, as I mentioned, for ECS traditional, so you can't use those. But since we're talking about Fargate, you have the option of either Fargate itself a traditional and Fargate Spot.

People are usually nervous about using Fargate Spot because they think, well, Amazon is going to give me this infrastructure to run my containers, but they might take it away without warning. It's really not that bad. As long as your containers are designed to come and go in a graceful manner, you know that when they receive a certain signal from AWS, your software knows how to properly shut down. You shouldn't have an issue. If you have high availability, let's say, multiple availability zones, and those things are in place, you should be able to set up a good Fargate Spot strategy so that you always have enough capacity to meet the necessary demand for your services. So yes, when you're running Fargate, the Capacity provider by default is going to be called Fargate. But just know that Fargate Spot is also there for you and you should consider it.