The First-Ever API Security Support for AWS Fargate with Deep Layer 7 Visibility for Serverless Compute

We’re excited to announce a major expansion of the Upwind Platform: API Security is now fully available for AWS Fargate workloads. With this update, customers gain the same deep API discovery, behavioral insight, and layer 7 visibility for Fargate that Upwind already delivers across Kubernetes, VMs, and other cloud compute environments.

As organizations shift toward serverless and container-based architectures, Fargate has quickly become a preferred option for teams seeking to avoid infrastructure management without sacrificing performance or scalability. Now, with full Fargate support, customers can include these workloads in a unified API security strategy, ensuring no workload type becomes a blind spot.

Why API Security Is More Critical Than Ever

APIs are the backbone of modern applications. They connect microservices, move sensitive data between them, and underpin both internal workflows and customer-facing features. But as cloud environments become more distributed and dynamic, the API attack surface expands in ways traditional tools can’t handle.

• APIs are deployed faster than they can be documented, creating shadow endpoints and stale routes attackers actively exploit.
• Most breaches originate from misconfigurations and logic flaws, not CVEs, making static analysis insufficient.
• Serverless and container workloads (including Fargate) create highly dynamic infrastructure, where APIs appear and disappear within minutes.
• API attacks are increasingly leveraging authentication gaps, data exposure flaws, and excessive permissions.

Industry analysts are sounding the alarm:

Gartner predicts that over half of all data theft by 2025 will stem from insecure APIs, while VentureBeat estimates API vulnerabilities cost businesses $75B annually.

The First API Security for Serverless Compute Workloads

Upwind approaches API security through runtime intelligence, giving customers a live, accurate view of what APIs exist, how they behave, and whether they’re at risk. Upwind stands apart by delivering:

• Real-Time API Discovery: Upwind observes live traffic and workload behavior to uncover every active API, including internal, shadow, and undocumented endpoints.
• Context-Aware Behavioral Analysis: API behavior is enriched with context from identity, permissions, network flows, and workload metadata to identify anomalies and misuse.
• Workload-Native Mapping: Every API is tied back to the exact workload, whether a VM, container, or now, a Fargate task.
• Unified Risk Correlation: Findings connect seamlessly with vulnerabilities, posture issues, exposure paths, and identity data across the Upwind platform.

This creates a single, accurate view of API activity across the cloud, without relying on static configurations or code instrumentation.

Introducing API Security for AWS Fargate

With this release, AWS Fargate services now appear directly in the Upwind API Security catalog, receiving the same deep analysis our customers rely on for their Kubernetes clusters and VM-based workloads. This means bringing Upwind’s layer 7 visibility into Fargate workloads – a level of insight that has historically been challenging in serverless container environments.

Layer 7 Visibility for Fargate: Why It Matters

AWS Fargate gives engineering teams the ability to run containers without managing servers. That same abstraction creates significant challenges for security teams. When you don’t control the underlying nodes, you can’t deploy host-level agents or rely on kernel access. Traditional network taps don’t work because much of the traffic moves inside AWS-managed layers that never surface at a gateway. In addition, because Fargate tasks scale automatically, workloads, and the APIs they expose, can appear and disappear within minutes.

These factors make it incredibly difficult to understand what APIs exist inside a Fargate environment, let alone how those APIs behave. Upwind uniquely solves this problem through a lightweight form of runtime, layer 7 visibility that does not depend on host access, sidecars, or code changes. Instead, Upwind observes application-layer behavior directly from the workload itself, giving security teams accurate insight into how APIs operate in real conditions.

With this approach, teams gain clear visibility into:

• which APIs a Fargate service actually exposes (including internal-only endpoints)
• how those APIs authenticate and handle sensitive data
• who or what is calling them, and how patterns shift over time
• unusual or suspicious behaviors—such as odd POSTs, inconsistent token usage, or unexpected data flows
• exactly which Fargate task or ECS service each API interaction originated from

This level of precision reveals parts of Fargate applications that were previously invisible. It enables faster investigations, reduces guesswork, and creates a complete, contextual security record – even for highly ephemeral workloads. It’s insight that static scanners or traditional network tools simply cannot provide in a serverless container environment.

What Customers Gain From Fargate Support

By supporting Fargate in the API capabilities of the Upwind Platform , organizations can finally treat serverless container workloads the same way they treat Kubernetes clusters or VM-based services – using one unified security model, without exceptions or blind spots.

With Upwind’s Fargate API support, customers gain:

• Continuous visibility into every API exposed by their Fargate workloads, including internal-only routes.
• Early detection of misconfigurations before they lead to exposure or unintended access.
• Real-time identification of unusual or risky behavior, powered by runtime and layer 7 context.
• Precise API-to-workload attribution, making investigations faster and more accurate.
• Streamlined compliance, with automated API inventory and behavior tracking.
• Zero-friction scalability, as Upwind automatically adapts when Fargate tasks scale, redeploy, or roll out new versions.

In short, organizations gain a complete picture of how their Fargate services behave at the application layer, and the confidence that the APIs powering those services are secure, monitored, and understood.

Closing Thoughts

AWS Fargate continues to expand as a go-to option for teams embracing serverless containers. Now, with Upwind API Security, customers can confidently bring Fargate workloads into the same visibility and protection model they rely on across the rest of their cloud environment.

Layer 7 visibility has long been the missing piece for Fargate security – and Upwind is proud to deliver it. Want to see how Upwind secures your Fargate workloads in real time? Schedule a personalized demo with our team and explore the full power of runtime API Security across your environment.