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AWS Fargate
Plans and prices
AWS Fargate On-Demand
Free
20 GB ephemeral storage included · pricing varies by region and configuration · additional AWS services and data transfer may incur charges
Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On the record
- Architecture limits
- Arm-based applications on Fargate are supported with ECS; Arm workloads on EKS are not supported on Fargate.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- AWS says Fargate is approved for compliance programs including HIPAA, PCI, and FedRAMP, and is available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Container images
- Fargate supports deployment of OCI-compliant container images.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- GPU support
- AWS says GPU workloads are not supported on Fargate and recommends Amazon EC2 for those workloads.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Infrastructure management
- Fargate manages capacity needs and operating system updates so teams can focus on applications instead of servers.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Fargate workloads can use AWS Identity and Access Management, CloudWatch Container Insights, and AWS Application Auto Scaling.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Maker history
- Amazon Web Services says it launched in 2006.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Pricing options
- Fargate Spot supports interrupt-tolerant ECS tasks on spare capacity at up to a 70% discount from regular Fargate pricing.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Resource limits
- The pricing page lists configurations up to 32 vCPU and 244 GB memory, while the overview describes data processing tasks up to 16 vCPU and 120 GB memory.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Scaling
- Fargate supports AWS Auto Scaling scheduled, target tracking, and step scaling, as well as Kubernetes HPA and VPA.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Support commitment
- AWS states its Compute SLA guarantees a monthly uptime percentage of at least 99.99% for Fargate.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- What it does
- AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Workload isolation
- Each ECS task or EKS pod runs in its own single-use, single-tenant compute environment with a virtualization boundary between workloads.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Workloads
- AWS lists web applications, APIs, microservices, data processing, AI and machine learning, and application modernization as supported use cases.aws.amazon.com · read 29 Sep 2026
