AWS Fargate
The facts below are what the maker publishes about AWS Fargate, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From AWS Fargate's own pricing page, checked 29 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| 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 · Pay as you go; billed per second for vCPU, memory, operating system, CPU architecture, and storage used. Minimum 1 minute; Windows containers have a 5-minute minimum. |
The facts
Each one read from AWS Fargate's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture limits
- Arm-based applications on Fargate are supported with ECS; Arm workloads on EKS are not supported on Fargate.checked 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.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Container images
- Fargate supports deployment of OCI-compliant container images.checked 29 Sep 2026
- GPU support
- AWS says GPU workloads are not supported on Fargate and recommends Amazon EC2 for those workloads.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Infrastructure management
- Fargate manages capacity needs and operating system updates so teams can focus on applications instead of servers.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Fargate workloads can use AWS Identity and Access Management, CloudWatch Container Insights, and AWS Application Auto Scaling.checked 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.checked 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.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Scaling
- Fargate supports AWS Auto Scaling scheduled, target tracking, and step scaling, as well as Kubernetes HPA and VPA.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Support commitment
- AWS states its Compute SLA guarantees a monthly uptime percentage of at least 99.99% for Fargate.checked 29 Sep 2026
- What it does
- AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.checked 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.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Workloads
- AWS lists web applications, APIs, microservices, data processing, AI and machine learning, and application modernization as supported use cases.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker history
- Amazon Web Services says it launched in 2006.checked 29 Sep 2026
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