Push Work Pool Deployment

Push work pools flip the script on traditional orchestration. Instead of running a worker that polls for jobs, you give Prefect Cloud credentials to your serverless platform and it submits work directly. No worker process to babysit. No compute sitting idle waiting for work.

When a flow run is ready, Prefect Cloud creates a container job on AWS ECS, Azure Container Instances, Google Cloud Run, Modal, or Coiled. Your code runs, reports back, and the container disappears. You pay only for actual execution time.

This model works best when you want maximum simplicity. Store your cloud credentials in a Prefect Block, point your deployment at a push work pool, and you're done. The tradeoff: flow runs are capped at 24 hours. For longer-running work, use a hybrid work pool with persistent workers instead.

For more on this setup, see the serverless deployment guide.