Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Plans and prices
From Amazon Elastic Container Service's own pricing page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon ECS orchestration | Free | Underlying compute and resource charges apply · No additional charge for orchestration; pay for underlying compute and resources used. |
| ECS Anywhere | $0.01 a month | Per registered on-premises instance · Underlying resource charges may apply · $0.01025 per registered on-premises instance/hour; billed hourly with a one-hour minimum. |
The facts
Each one read from Amazon Elastic Container Service's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Application security
- AWS describes ECS security features including application isolation, granular container permissions, IAM roles, automated patching, and encryption in transit and at rest.checked 28 Sep 2026
What it does
- Compliance
- AWS says it supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Container image repositories
- ECS can retrieve images from third-party hosted Docker repositories or accessible private registries, including Docker Hub and Amazon ECR.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Fargate storage
- Each Fargate task receives 20 GB of ephemeral storage at no additional charge; additional configured storage is billed, up to 200 GB.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Hybrid deployments
- ECS Anywhere lets customers manage on-premises container workloads using the ECS console and operator tools.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- AWS says ECS serves teams running containerized workloads and describes customers ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Pricing limits
- Fargate usage is billed by requested vCPU, memory, and storage, rounded up to the nearest second, with a one-minute minimum charge.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Scaling
- ECS helps teams deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without managing the orchestration control plane, nodes, or add-ons.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Serverless compute
- AWS Fargate is built into ECS and handles scaling and infrastructure management for containers launched with Fargate.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Support
- AWS lists support as a way to access proactive guidance, issue resolution, and support tools.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Supported containers
- ECS supports management of Windows containers and provides an ECS-optimized Windows Amazon Machine Image.checked 28 Sep 2026
- Threat detection
- ECS integrates with Amazon GuardDuty to help detect external threats to workloads.checked 28 Sep 2026
- What it does
- Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service for building, managing, and running containerized workloads.checked 28 Sep 2026
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