The city's shared DevOps account still runs always-on EC2 build VMs…

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The city's shared DevOps account still runs always-on EC2 build VMs that execute containerized test suites for permitting, GIS, and public-health pipelines, sitting idle between merges. Which container-service modernization should architects select for the test runners?

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Run the containerized test runners on AWS Fargate so the pipelines shed long-lived build VMs — Test runners are visiting inspectors, not tenants with a year lease. Park the suites on Fargate, run them when a merge lands, and stop paying for idle build VMs. Bigger always-on boxes just raise the rent.

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Keep the long-lived build VMs and increase instance size so idle time is more expensive

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Move test execution onto developer laptops only and retire shared pipelines

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Execute every test suite as a synchronous query against Amazon Athena

The city's shared DevOps account still runs always-on EC2 build VMs that execute containerized test suites for permitting, GIS, and public-health pipelines, sitting idle between merges. Which container-service modernization should architects select for the test runners?

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