As an operational engineer, we need to do several ad-hoc tasks such as AWS RDS backup exports. It is still common to see people spinning up an AWS EC2 instance and keeping it running all time to run ad hoc scripts, even when the scripts are run for short time. In this talk I talk about the Serverless approach to ad hoc scripts/tasks by using AWS Fargate as a task runner.
In the talk, I show some sample code for building and deploying AWS Fargate using CDK. Viewers can implement the same process to run virtually task, and be charged only for the time it took to complete the task rather than to have an EC2 instance running all the time. The code is also published online and can be cloned from