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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. A 0.25 vCPU / 0.5 GB task running 24/7 costs ~$9/mo in us-east-1; a 4 vCPU / 16 GB task costs ~$145/mo. ECS on EC2 adds cluster overhead but wins at sustained utilization above ~55%.