https://fortem.dev/blog Guides, comparisons, and use cases for platform engineers running AWS ECS Fargate at scale. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:08:36 GMT Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT fortem-dev feed https://fortem.dev/blog/internal-developer-platform-ecs/ https://fortem.dev/blog/internal-developer-platform-ecs/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide 93% of top-performing teams use an IDP. But ECS teams don't need a full platform — they need an operational layer. A decision framework to figure out what you actually need. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-environment-clone/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-environment-clone/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Use Case The compliance auditor wants a clone of production. That's 15 services, an ALB, RDS, SSM params — a 12-step manual process. Here's the template approach, and a parameterized Terraform module. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-cost-visibility/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-cost-visibility/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Use Case Cost Explorer shows the total. It doesn't show per-environment costs. Here's why ECS Fargate environments are structurally hard to attribute — and a 10-line bash script that does it anyway. https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-cortex/ https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-cortex/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Versus Cortex is an Engineering Operations Platform for org-wide visibility. Fortem operates your ECS Fargate fleet specifically. Here's which one you need — and when to use both. https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-dev-environment-cost/ https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-dev-environment-cost/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Cost Explorer shows the total. It doesn't show per-environment costs. Here's the real math: compute + fixed overhead (ALB, NAT, CloudWatch ≈ $90/env) — and how to see it. https://fortem.dev/blog/devops-automation-beyond-cicd/ https://fortem.dev/blog/devops-automation-beyond-cicd/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide CI/CD automates deployment — not operations. 5 gaps every team discovers at 10+ environments: scheduling, self-service, cost tracking, cloning, orphans. Build vs buy breakdown. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-best-practices/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-best-practices/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Seven Fargate best practices for teams at scale: naming conventions, fixed overhead, CloudWatch retention, Fargate Spot, quota isolation, Terraform state, and scheduling. Real numbers from AWS pricing. https://fortem.dev/blog/reduce-aws-costs-without-ri/ https://fortem.dev/blog/reduce-aws-costs-without-ri/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide RIs and Savings Plans change how you pay, not what runs. Here are 5 methods that cut actual consumption — scheduling, right-sizing, Spot, auto-stop, and killing orphans — ranked by impact. https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-fargate-pricing-real-costs/ https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-fargate-pricing-real-costs/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide AWS says $0.04048/vCPU-hr. Here's what a real environment costs — ALB, NAT Gateway, CloudWatch, data transfer — and the fixed overhead nobody budgets for. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-terraform/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-terraform/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Terraform is the right tool for provisioning ECS Fargate infrastructure. But at 10+ environments, state sprawl and the ops gap catch every team. Three patterns, a tagging strategy, and what the operations layer needs to do. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-multi-environment-strategy/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-multi-environment-strategy/ Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Naming conventions, cluster structure, and the five AWS limits that surface when environments scale from 3 to 10+. Fixed overhead, IAM proliferation, Fargate quota exhaustion — and what to get right before you hit the wall. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-environment-scheduling/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-environment-scheduling/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Stop paying for ECS dev and staging environments when nobody's using them. Every scheduling approach — AWS-native options, trade-offs, and what actually works at fleet scale. https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-proton-deprecated/ https://fortem.dev/blog/aws-proton-deprecated/ Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Timely AWS Proton shuts down October 7, 2026. Your ECS environments keep running — but the console, APIs, and every pipeline built on Proton stop working. Here's what breaks and how to migrate. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-staging-self-service/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-staging-self-service/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Use Case Platform engineers become the single point of failure for staging ops when developers have no safe, scoped way to act. Here's how to fix it with ECS environment RBAC. https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-aws-copilot/ https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-aws-copilot/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Versus AWS Copilot CLI reaches end-of-support June 12, 2026. Your ECS services keep running — but here's what breaks, what to do next, and how to migrate. https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-flightcontrol/ https://fortem.dev/blog/fortem-vs-flightcontrol/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Versus Flightcontrol is the right tool for 1–3 apps on AWS. Here's exactly where it stops making sense — and where the pricing math breaks at fleet scale. https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-cost-optimization/ https://fortem.dev/blog/ecs-fargate-cost-optimization/ Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Guide Dev/staging environments run 168 hrs/week. Your team works 40. Here's the math on what that costs — and four methods to fix it, starting with the one most teams ignore.