What is AWS Fargate?

AWS Fargate is a technology that you can use with Amazon ECS to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances. With Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, or scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers. This removes the need to choose server types, decide when to scale your clusters, or optimize cluster packing.

When you run your Amazon ECS tasks and services with the Fargate launch type or a Fargate capacity provider, you package your application in containers, specify the CPU and memory requirements, define networking and IAM policies, and launch the application. Each Fargate task has its own isolation boundary and does not share the underlying kernel, CPU resources, memory resources, or elastic network interface with another task.

This topic describes the different components of Fargate tasks and services, and calls out special considerations for using Fargate with Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate is currently only available in the following Regions:

Region Name	Region
US East (Ohio)	us-east-2
US East (N. Virginia)	us-east-1
US West (N. California)	us-west-1 (usw1-az1 & usw1-az3 only)
US West (Oregon)	us-west-2
Africa (Cape Town)	af-south-1
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	ap-east-1
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	ap-south-1
Asia Pacific (Osaka)	ap-northeast-3
Asia Pacific (Seoul)	ap-northeast-2
Asia Pacific (Singapore)	ap-southeast-1
Asia Pacific (Sydney)	ap-southeast-2
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	ap-northeast-1 (apne1-az1, apne1-az2, & apne1-az4 only)
Canada (Central)	ca-central-1 (cac1-az1 & cac1-az2 only)
China (Beijing)	cn-north-1 (cnn1-az1 & cnn1-az2 only)
China (Ningxia)	cn-northwest-1
Europe (Frankfurt)	eu-central-1
Europe (Ireland)	eu-west-1
Europe (London)	eu-west-2
Europe (Paris)	eu-west-3
Europe (Milan)	eu-south-1
Europe (Stockholm)	eu-north-1
South America (São Paulo)	sa-east-1
Middle East (Bahrain)	me-south-1
AWS GovCloud (US-East)	us-gov-east-1
AWS GovCloud (US-West)	us-gov-west-1

The following walkthroughs help you get started using Amazon ECS on Fargate.

• Getting Started with Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate

• Tutorial: Creating a Cluster with a Fargate Task Using the AWS CLI

• Tutorial: Creating a cluster with a Fargate task using the Amazon ECS CLI

For more information about Amazon Elastic Container Service, see What is Amazon ECS?.

Pricing

With Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate, you pay for the vCPU and memory resources your tasks use. For more information, see Fargate Pricing.

Fargate also offers Savings Plans which provides significant savings on your AWS usage. For more information, see the Savings Plans User Guide.

To see your bill, go to the Billing and Cost Management Dashboard in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Your bill contains links to usage reports that provide details about your bill. To learn more about AWS account billing, see AWS Account Billing.

If you have questions concerning AWS billing, accounts, and events, contact AWS Support.

For an overview of Trusted Advisor, a service that helps you optimize the costs, security, and performance of your AWS environment, see AWS Trusted Advisor.