With AWS Fargate, there are no upfront payments and you only pay for the resources that you use. You pay for the amount of vCPU, memory, and storage resources consumed by your containerized applications.
AWS Fargate Pricing
AWS Fargate pricing is calculated based on the vCPU, memory, and storage1 resources used from the time you start to download your container image until the Amazon ECS Task or Amazon EKS2 Pod terminates, rounded up to the nearest second.
1 Storage pricing is only applicable currently for Amazon ECS
2 See the regions where EKS/Fargate is available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/
Pricing Details
Pricing is based on requested vCPU, memory, and storage1 resources for the Task or Pod. The three dimensions are independently configurable. 20 GB of ephemeral storage is available for all Fargate Tasks and Pods by default—you only pay for any additional storage that you configure.
1 Storage resources are currently only available for ECS.
Fargate Spot Pricing for Amazon ECS
Fargate Spot allows customers to run interrupt-tolerant Amazon ECS Tasks on spare capacity at up to a 70% discount off the regular Fargate price. With Fargate Spot, you pay the Spot price that is in effect for the time period your Amazon ECS Tasks are running. Fargate Spot prices are set by AWS Fargate and adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Fargate Spot capacity. The following table displays the current Spot price for vCPU-hour and GB-hour for each region.
Fargate Ephemeral Storage Pricing for Amazon ECS
* The first 20 GB are at no additional charge
Compute Savings Plan for Amazon ECS & Amazon EKS
Take advantage of Savings Plans if you have steady state Fargate usage. Savings Plans offers savings of up to 50% on your AWS Fargate usage in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount of compute usage (measure in dollars per hour) for a one or three year term.
Supported Configurations
| CPU |
Memory Values |
|---|---|
| 0.25 vCPU | 0.5GB, 1GB, and 2GB |
| 0.5 vCPU | Min. 1GB and Max. 4GB, in 1GB increments |
| 1 vCPU | Min. 2GB and Max. 8GB, in 1GB increments |
| 2 vCPU | Min. 4GB and Max. 16GB, in 1GB increments |
| 4 vCPU | Min. 8GB and Max. 30GB, in 1GB increments |
Duration
Pricing is per second with a 1-minute minimum. Duration is calculated from the time you start to download your container image (docker pull) until the Task terminates, rounded up to the nearest second.
Additional Charges
You may incur additional charges if your containers use other AWS services or transfers data. For example, if your containers use Amazon CloudWatch Logs for application logging, you are billed for CloudWatch usage.
For more information about AWS service pricing, see the pricing section of the relevant AWS service detail pages. Links to pricing for some of the commonly used services are listed below.
Data Transfer: You are billed at standard AWS data transfer rates.
* on this page GB = 1024^3 bytes
Pricing Examples
Example 1
For example, your service uses 5 ECS Tasks, running for 10 minutes (600 seconds) every day for a month (30 days) where each ECS Task uses 1 vCPU, 2GB memory, and 30 GB ephemeral storage.
Monthly CPU charges
Total vCPU charges = # of Tasks x # vCPUs x price per CPU-second x CPU duration per day (seconds) x # of days
Total vCPU charges = 5 x 1 x 0.000011244 x 600 x 30 = $1.01
Monthly memory charges
Total memory charges = # of Tasks x memory in GB x price per GB x memory duration per day (seconds) x # of days
Total memory charges = 5 x 2 x 0.000001235 x 600 x 30 = $0.22
Monthly ephemeral storage charges
Total ephemeral storage charges = # of Tasks x additional ephemeral storage in GB x price per GB x memory duration per day (seconds) x # of days
Additional ephemeral storage in GB = 30 - 20 = 10
Total ephemeral storage charges = 5 x 10 x 0.0000000308 x 600 x 30 = $0.03
Monthly Fargate compute charges
Monthly Fargate compute charges = monthly CPU charges + monthly memory charges + monthly ephemeral storage charges
Monthly Fargate compute charges = $1.01 + $0.22 + $0.03 = $1.26
Example 2
For example, your service uses 10 ECS Tasks running for 1 hour (3600 seconds) every day for a month (30 days) where each ECS Task uses 0.25 vCPU and 1GB memory.
Monthly CPU charges
Total vCPU charges = # of Tasks x # vCPUs x price per CPU-second x CPU duration per day (seconds) x # of days
Total vCPU charges = 10 x 0.25 x 0.000011244 x 3600 x 30 = $3.04
Monthly memory charges
Total memory charges = # of Tasks x memory in GB x price per GB x memory duration per day (seconds) x # of days
Total memory charges = 10 x 1 x 0.000001235 x 3600 x 30 = $1.33
Monthly Fargate compute charges
Monthly Fargate compute charges = monthly CPU charges + monthly memory charges
Monthly Fargate compute charges = $3.04 + $1.33 = $4.37
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