To run a service as a background service

Question

Hi AWS, I am working on an application whose background is deployed on Amazon EC2 instance. Now I need to have a background service that will run on a separate instance. This instance must have a port exposed for HTTP connections. Also this instance must be able to run Puppeteer(https://pptr.dev/) for report generation.

Please suggest how can I do that in reliable and cost effective manner with least operational overhead. Also I want to know which AWS service is the best choice for this use case.

Please suggest how can I do that in reliable and cost effective manner with least operational overhead.  Also I want to know which AWS service is the best choice for this use case.

Answer

Hi, to be cost-effective with least effort, ECS/Fargate will be you best choice:. It will take care of upscaling/downscaling, HA, etc. If you ho with classical EC2, which is non-managed, you will have to take care of it by yourself, which significantly adds to the costs.

To run Puppeteer in ECS/Fargate, see https://medium.com/innomizetech/building-serverless-web-crawler-with-puppeteer-on-aws-fargate-1202c8a66ec4

Hope it helps!

Didier

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Hi @Simone Tallevi that's what I am not able to identify with which to proceed with or is there any better option apart from EC2 and ECS as I have to use Redis as data store in this case. I just tagged ECS as I have used this service in one such use case before so it was just the instinct which made me tagged the service name while asking this question.

To run a service as a background service

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