Huh. I had this long call with our AWS Account Reps (+ Support Engineers) the other day and no one mentioned App Runner! This is the first I've heard of it. Looking at it now.
Ah I see, launched originally in May 2021. That's probably why they weren't aware of it. Yes, this looks cool. Very much what I was looking for.
The differences that I can see are...
* AWS App Runner lacks an advertised free tier. Not a big deal for all but the smallest projects though.
* AWS App Runner bills rounded up to the next second, whereas GCP Cloud Run rounds up to the next 100 millisecond.
* AWS App Runner doesn't charge per request (?!), whereas GCP Cloud Run charges $0.40/1M requests.
* AWS App Runner has fewer CPU/RAM configuration options. The lack of low end options may be a blocker for us.
* It's cheaper than GCP Cloud Run - $51.83 @ vCPU/1GiB, but 2GiB minimum, in Runner vs $69.642 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v1) $97.50 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v2) in Cloud Run.
* I'm confused by the networking model. In App Runner, you have to make an ENI for your App Runner service to access your VPC? Weird. There's some extra cost there I think.
Things that I can't determine based on the documentation...
* Does App Runner support committed use discounts?
* Does App Runner throw a SIGTERM before shutting the container down? I hope yes but I can't find docs on it.
* Is there a file system accessible on App Runner and is it just in memory or is there actually a disk to write to?
* The quotas & limits page on App Runner feels incomplete and I'm left with a lot of questions about it.
* Is there an SLA?
* In fact the documentation for App Runner just feels a little incomplete.
It looks like AWS definitely wants App Runner to be the answer to Cloud Run, but to me, it feels like it's not quite there yet.
It's also weird, that ECS Fargate lets you run a container without thinking about the server that it runs on, and App Runner does too, just with a few extra things. Why is it a whole separate service? Why didn't they just add it onto Fargate?
Re: Other services. I've only heard of API Gateway, DynamoDB and Lambda@Edge; I'll have to spend time investigating the other ones. Thank you for mentioning them!
I know this is an old thread now, but I just came back to it and thought to dig in a bit. First thing my Googling hit was this, which provides a good comparison of App Runner and Fargate
Ah I see, launched originally in May 2021. That's probably why they weren't aware of it. Yes, this looks cool. Very much what I was looking for.
The differences that I can see are...
* AWS App Runner lacks an advertised free tier. Not a big deal for all but the smallest projects though.
* AWS App Runner bills rounded up to the next second, whereas GCP Cloud Run rounds up to the next 100 millisecond.
* AWS App Runner doesn't charge per request (?!), whereas GCP Cloud Run charges $0.40/1M requests.
* AWS App Runner has fewer CPU/RAM configuration options. The lack of low end options may be a blocker for us.
* It's cheaper than GCP Cloud Run - $51.83 @ vCPU/1GiB, but 2GiB minimum, in Runner vs $69.642 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v1) $97.50 @ 1 vCPU/1GiB (v2) in Cloud Run.
* I'm confused by the networking model. In App Runner, you have to make an ENI for your App Runner service to access your VPC? Weird. There's some extra cost there I think.
Things that I can't determine based on the documentation...
* Does App Runner support committed use discounts?
* Does App Runner throw a SIGTERM before shutting the container down? I hope yes but I can't find docs on it.
* Is there a file system accessible on App Runner and is it just in memory or is there actually a disk to write to?
* The quotas & limits page on App Runner feels incomplete and I'm left with a lot of questions about it.
* Is there an SLA?
* In fact the documentation for App Runner just feels a little incomplete.
It looks like AWS definitely wants App Runner to be the answer to Cloud Run, but to me, it feels like it's not quite there yet.
It's also weird, that ECS Fargate lets you run a container without thinking about the server that it runs on, and App Runner does too, just with a few extra things. Why is it a whole separate service? Why didn't they just add it onto Fargate?
Re: Other services. I've only heard of API Gateway, DynamoDB and Lambda@Edge; I'll have to spend time investigating the other ones. Thank you for mentioning them!