apprunner-roadmap

Google cloud run and Azure container apps both let you run an arbitrary docker image without having to deal with custom setups. Both scale automatically so they are serverless. AWS has apprunner but it doesn't scale to zero.[0] [0] https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/9 (amusingly the issue OP posts on HN)

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 https://cloudonaut.io/fargate-vs-apprunner/ That lack of WAF support stood out. So Googling that: https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/58 "Hello, we are looking at supporting WAF in App Runner and will have more updates on this thread going forward. "

I've started playing with AWS App Runner (https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/) which makes things fairly simple. You just point to a github repo, tell it the build command and the run command and it will deploy your project in containers and even load balance and scale up automatically. Now it's not fully baked yet. DNS configuration is broken if you want to use your own domain (see https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/37 and https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/65 ) but you can get around that by putting cloudFront in front with just a few more clicks (and you get the benefit of having some of your files cached if you want).

Though with memory limited to just 4gb (vs 10gb for lambda and 16gb for cloud run) it may not be viable for my app. Somewhat frustrating that the ephemeral storage mentioned in the documentation provides no clue as to the amount available. https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/112

I opened a request on GitHub that Global Accelerator support AWS AppRunner (persistent containers in Fargate VMs with HTTP/S gateway) as an endpoint. That'd cover all of OP's usecases (and the one that I also have): https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/83

Thank you, this is the relevant issue: https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/9

Can't use it with private resources? FFS. https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/1

We optimized the service to work with any container instead of eliminating cost. If you're not getting requests you have a reduced cost for consumed memory and instances but by keeping one warm it makes it so you don't have to engineer around cold starts. We may add scale to zero in the future. Would love to hear about your use cases on the public roadmap https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/projects/1