Cost Optimization & FinOpsPart 26
palaniappan p2 min
Amazon Fargate & ECS Task Pricing: vCPU-Seconds, Ephemeral Storage, and Fargate vs EC2 Launch Type (2026)
Fargate bills per vCPU-second and GB-second, not per task hour. In us-east-1 a 0.25 vCPU / 0.5 GB task runs ~$9/mo; a 4 vCPU / 16 GB task ~$145/mo. Prefer arm64 + C9g/C8g when moving steady-state to ECS on EC2.