<ul><li>Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) with Fargate provides a fully managed, serverless compute engine for containers.</li><li>The smallest unit of execution in EKS (and Kubernetes in general) is not a container — it's a pod.</li><li>In Fargate, you cannot run a container by itself — it must be inside a pod.</li><li>Understanding that the pod is the minimum execution unit helps you design better Kubernetes manifests and configure IAM, networking, and observability correctly.</li></ul>

Understanding Execution Units in Amazon EKS with Fargate

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