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AWS Fargate

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What it does
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Integrations
Fargate workloads can use AWS Identity and Access Management, CloudWatch Container Insights, and AWS Application Auto Scaling.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Compliance
AWS says Fargate is approved for compliance programs including HIPAA, PCI, and FedRAMP, and is available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Founded
2017Read 28 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Architecture limits
Arm-based applications on Fargate are supported with ECS; Arm workloads on EKS are not supported on Fargate.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Container images
Fargate supports deployment of OCI-compliant container images.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
GPU support
AWS says GPU workloads are not supported on Fargate and recommends Amazon EC2 for those workloads.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Infrastructure management
Fargate manages capacity needs and operating system updates so teams can focus on applications instead of servers.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Maker history
Amazon Web Services says it launched in 2006.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Pricing options
Fargate Spot supports interrupt-tolerant ECS tasks on spare capacity at up to a 70% discount from regular Fargate pricing.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
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.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Scaling
Fargate supports AWS Auto Scaling scheduled, target tracking, and step scaling, as well as Kubernetes HPA and VPA.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Support commitment
AWS states its Compute SLA guarantees a monthly uptime percentage of at least 99.99% for Fargate.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Workload isolation
Each ECS task or EKS pod runs in its own single-use, single-tenant compute environment with a virtualization boundary between workloads.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Workloads
AWS lists web applications, APIs, microservices, data processing, AI and machine learning, and application modernization as supported use cases.Read 29 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

AWS Fargate On-Demand Free 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. 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

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