ECS Fargate Production Patterns That Actually Work

A set of battle-tested ECS Fargate patterns I apply to every production service — covering Spot strategies, deployment circuit breakers, ARM64 migration, health checks, and Aurora Serverless v2 cost optimization. I&rsquo;ve deployed and managed many containerized services on ECS Fargate. Over time, a set of patterns has emerged that I apply consistently to every new service. This post documents…